Could Soliciting Donations at the Cash Register Backfire? Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
January 8, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- With more stores soliciting customers for charity at the cash register, Eric Felten, an opinion writer for The Wall Street Journal, finds the practice annoying and wonders if it’ll brew resentment against charities.
- Larry Blumenthal, director of social-media strategy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, writes on the Foundation Center’s Philanthropy News Digest that foundations need to learn from failures. His steps to “failing well” include failing publicly and proudly and embracing “microfailure.”
- In an effort to raise awareness about orchestras and classical music, the League of American Orchestras is making its 68-year-old magazine, Symphony, available free online. The January/February issue includes an article about musicians who blog.
- When should someone turn down an invitation to sit on a nonprofit board? Anne W. Ackerson, a charity consultant, looks at this question on her blog, saying that potential board members should shy away from charities with bad reputations or if they’ve had no prior connection to a group.
- Alice Korngold, a nonprofit consultant, has collected resolutions about corporate social responsibility for 2010 from business and charity leaders for her Fast Company blog.
- As charities in Australia grapple with the tough economy, many of them want the Australian government to emulate the Obama administration and create a Social Innovation Fund, writes Lisa Cotton, director of social investment at Social Ventures Australia, a nonprofit group in Sydney. Her views appear on Business Spectator, an Australian news Web site.
