Give and Take: Putting Pressure on Foundations

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a foundation watchdog group, will push grant makers to give more money to help poor neighborhoods and minorities as part of a series of recommendations to improve philanthropy it plans to announce tomorrow, notes Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of opinions about the nonprofit world.

Plus: The victims of the Madoff scandal should have given more to charity, says one commentator.