December 7, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- How often are you solicited for charitable contributions each year? A donor who uses the Charity Navigator Web site kept tabs on how many mail appeals he received in a 12-month period and found that the American Diabetes Association sent 24 mailings, UNICEF and World Vision each sent 18, and the Special Olympics sent 14, to name just a few.
- With an estimate that 17 of the nation’s 30 biggest foundations are not using social media or using it in a very limited way, Mitchell W. Hurst, a nonprofit communications consultant, says on his blog that “foundations that stay on the sidelines will miss out on the substantive discussions about their issues that are taking place online.”
- Alan Khazei, co-founder of the nonprofit group City Year, speaks with Change.org about his bid to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat.
- Wall Street executives who face public criticism over large pay and their role in the financial crisis should learn from Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, two “robber barons” who were able to rehabilitate their images through philanthropy, writes Joyce Appleby, a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Los Angeles Times.
- This week’s United Nations climate-change meeting in Copenhagen is likely to be a “hockey brawl,” but there are positive signs it could produce an international agreement on how to curb greenhouse gas emissions, writes Carter Roberts, chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., on a Politico blog.
