Nonprofit Hospitals’ Role After the Health-Care Overhaul; and More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
March 31, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Writing on the Intrepid Philanthropist blog, Rick Cohen, national correspondent with the Nonprofit Quarterly, expects nonprofit hospitals to benefit from the passage last week of sweeping changes to the health-care system. Among other things, fewer patients will be unable to pay.
- Too often, social-service organizations and other groups design their Web sites without their beneficiaries in mind, writes Jeff Raderstrong, who works at a community health clinic, on his blog Change Charity. Making improvements can be as simple as having the organization’s address and hours of operation on the site’s home page, he says.
- Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indianapolis, writes on the Case Foundation’s blog about the failure of traditional government and nonprofit approaches to problem solving and a new breed of social entrepreneurs who are trying to innovate.
- “People who serve on nonprofit boards can effect a win-win-win situation,” writes Mike Burns, a nonprofit consultant on his blog Nonprofit Board Crisis. Mr. Burns calls to mind that nonprofit governance follows a similar model to Marion Rockefeller Weber’s Flow Fund Circle, in that “great board members can make a difference by lending their skills and time personally.”
