September 16, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Micromanaging, not resolving conflicts, and ignorance of nonprofit law are some of the most common governance mistakes at charities, writes Ellis McGehee Carter, a lawyer in Phoenix, on her blog.
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity Worldwide, a new book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, offers “perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism” for how to fight global poverty by helping women, says Bill Gates Sr., one of the leaders of the Gates foundation, in the Huffington Post.
- The marketing expert Seth Godin’s controversial post on how nonprofit groups use social media is drawing extensive debate among readers of the blogs by the nonprofit expert Beth Kanter and the CauseWired author Tom Watson.
