Public Invited to Vote on Philanthropy “Game Changers;” and More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 30, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Huffington Post is asking readers to vote on “the biggest game changer in philanthropy.” Candidates include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for his creation of a citywide service program, and Perla Ni, founder of the Web site Great Nonprofits.
- Andrew Wolk, founder of the nonprofit group Root Cause, advances the idea of creating common measurement tools tailored to an organization’s size and stage of development.
- While making changes to the nation’s health-care system is important, capping the charitable tax deduction to pay for the overhaul — or any other government program — would hurt charities, writes Brian A. Gallagher, chief executive officer of United Way Worldwide, in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.
- With the growing interest in the racial and gender diversity of foundation leadership, Gary Yates, chief executive of the California Wellness Foundation, and Thomas E. Wilcox, president of the Baltimore Community Foundation, discuss on a Council on Foundations blog how their organizations were able to recruit women, black people, and others to their boards.
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