October 29, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Bill and Melinda Gates continue to cite questionable malaria data as part of their new effort to promote U.S. foreign spending on global health, say William Easterly and Laura Fresch, of New York University’s Development Research Institute, on their Aid Watch blog. Read The Chronicle’s article about the Gateses’ advocacy campaign.
- While two recent reports present interesting information about the gender and ethnic diversity within foundation leadership, they fail to look at age and whether foundation chief executives are getting younger, writes Marion Conway, a charity consultant, on her blog.
- Cause Marketing, the blog for the communications consulting company Alden Keene & Associates, asks whether ubiquitous promotions for breast-cancer-awareness month have made it impossible for other business-charity partnerships to get attention during October.
- Shweta S. Banerjee, a consultant with the New America Foundation, defends microfinance programs on Foreign Policy magazine’s Web site.
- Allison Fine, an expert on nonprofit groups and social media and a Chronicle contributor, has released her second annual Give List, a collection of ways to give back without contributing money. She is asking readers to vote for their favorites.
- Improving farming production in poor countries is more difficult than many donors may imagine, writes Holden Karnofsky, a founder of the nonprofit group GiveWell, on the organization’s blog.
