How to Reshape a Grant When Plans Fail; Plus More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
May 5, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Jean Case writes about how her foundation came to terms with the fact that its aggressive goals for PlayPumps, an effort to bring clean drinking water to rural African villages, couldn’t be met. Instead of giving up or ignoring reality, she says, her foundation reshaped the grant program.
- Bradford Smith, president of the Foundation Center, makes the case for why more foundations should have Web sites in a blog entry on his organization’s site. According to a survey of 11,000 U.S. grant makers conducted by his organization, only 29 percent had a Web site.
- On Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications blog, Gail Perry, a nonprofit consultant, discusses how to pitch a fund-raising event as if it were “the best party in town.” She says that it is important for others to know that you are a happy go-getter group that can have a good time while working to change the world.
- On her blog, Katya Andresen, the chief operating officer at Network for Good, questions whether Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization focused on health and fighting cancer, made the right decision to become a partner with KFC. Ms. Andresen says that nonprofit groups should look for partners with a compatible agenda that will result in mutual benefits.
