The Limits of So-Called Best Practices, Plus More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
February 23, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- While they provide some benefit, so-called best practices can be damaging to nonprofit organizations in some instances, Jamie Notter, a consultant, writes on his blog.
- With Yele Haiti, the musician Wyclef Jean’s embattled charity, getting only a small portion of the money raised by a telethon for Haiti, the gossip site Gawker applauds the move and says all the funds raised by the singer’s charity should be turned over to an established aid group.
- As more nonprofit journalism efforts start in California and elsewhere, they offer new outlets for grant makers to tell the public about their work, write Dan Cohen and Brian Rice, communications consultants. On the Communications Network blog, they discuss the new online news outlets.
