April 7, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- How should nonprofit groups plan for leadership changes? Ruth Frost, executive director of Pushcart Players, a theater in New Jersey, discusses how her organization approaches the issue and what she learned from a charity workshop offered by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Her views appear on the Dodge foundation blog.
- On the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog, Bob Hughes, an independent consultant, talks about the public’s confusion about foundations and what they do.
- On his blog, Seth Godin, a marketing expert, discusses Apple’s marketing tactics, which recently enabled the company to sell 300,000 iPads in one day. Mr. Godin believes that the strategies work even better for smaller gigs and more focused markets.
- America.gov profiles Roshaneh Zafar, the founder of the Kashf Foundation and a 2007 Skoll social entrepreneur, as a “Pakistani miracle worker.”
- There is a strong business case for why nonprofit groups should diversify the racial and ethnic makeup of their employees and leadership, says Jay Frost, a fund-raising consultant. On his blog, Mr. Frost responds to Rosetta Thurman, a nonprofit consultant and Chronicle contributor, who recently wrote that the nonprofit world needs to “either put up or shut up about diversity.” Mr. Frost says Ms Thurman makes a powerful moral argument, but a “far more compelling and effective” argument can be made on business and fund-raising grounds.
