A Teach for America Approach to Health Care, and More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
September 18, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Can intuition play a greater role in how grant makers measure the performance of charities? Gabriel Kasper, a consultant at the Monitor Institute, a Cambridge, Mass., company that helps donors evaluate grantees, asks this question on
a Good magazine blog.
- Governments and international organizations such as the United Nations are increasingly exploring “innovative financing mechanisms” — such as taxing airline tickets or holding a global lottery — to raise money to fight poverty around the world. Owen Barder, who works for a British organization called Development Initiatives, discusses the pros and cons of such financing approaches on his blog.
- To improve health care and curb rising costs, the country needs a program like Teach for America that would recruit and train college graduates to provide simple medical and hygienic tasks, says William V. Healey, a doctor and former clinical professor of surgery at the University of Texas, in an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal.
- While solicitations must be written with the donors in mind, be sure to craft them in a way that incorporates “your voice, uses your strengths, and allows you to speak to areas you are passionate about,” writes Jason Dick, a fund raiser at a college in Washington State, on his blog.
- Kate Roberts, founder of Population Services International’s YouthAIDS program, talks about the power of marketing to bring about positive social change and how charities can find the right celebrity champion for their cause at On Leadership, a video blog run by the Washington Post.
