September 21, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- The Boston Foundation’s decision to offer more unrestricted grants is a “brave act of leadership” that other donors should follow, says Dan Pallotta, a former fund raiser, on a blog of the Harvard Business School.
- With the start of the Jewish new year last week, many Jewish nonprofit leaders are trying to forget the past 12 months, when Jewish charities and foundations were rocked by scandal and financial woes, writes Jacob Berkman, a blog writer for the Jewish Telegraph Agency.
- Nathaniel Whittemore, founding director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, discusses the bid by City Year’s co-founder, Alan Khazei, to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat.
- What are the nonprofit world’s biggest problems? Jeff Brooks, creative director at Merkle, a marketing agency, and author of the Donor Power Blog, says the top two are a distaste for fund raising and donors and too much focus on building consensus.
- Many people point to the high rates of repayment among recipients of microloans to justify microfinance’s success in fighting poverty. But Holden Karnofsky, a founder of GiveWell, argues on the nonprofit group’s blog that repayment rates don’t provide convincing evidence of microfinance’s impact.
