October 27, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Dan Pallotta, founder of a company that raised money for charities and author of a book on the nonprofit world, argues on the Daily Beast that sexism is holding back the charitable field.
- Andrew Taylor, director of a graduate program in arts administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes on the Artful Manager blog about an effort by several theater companies to develop a system of financing based on locally supported agriculture, by which a group of people promise to invest in a farm and share its risks and benefits.
- Arts organizations need to rethink how they approach diversity in their programming, Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, writes on The Huffington Post.
- Katya Andresen, a marketer for the charity Network for Good, offers four ways nonprofit groups should be tailoring their appeals during these tough economic times on Getting to the Point.
- On Beth’s Blog, Michael Hoffman, the chief executive of the communications company See3, discusses why nonprofit groups should have a presence on the video-sharing site YouTube.
- Jeff Brooks, a marketing consultant for nonprofit groups, criticizes a new advertisement created by the environmental group WWF-UK, saying it fails to compel viewers to take action. Do you agree? Watch the video below and share your reactions in the comments section.
