How to Make a Nonprofit Merger Work, Plus More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
February 17, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- While nonprofit mergers are not easy, more charity leaders need to swallow their pride and remember what’s most important is to “maximize social good,” writes Craig Dearden-Phillips in an opinion article in The Guardian, a British newspaper. Mr. Dearden-Phillips recently helped shepherd a charity he founded through a merger.
- Which celebrities gave the most to Haiti relief efforts? The Giving Beast has a photo gallery of famous donors who supported earthquake recovery.
- Black History Month needs an overhaul, writes A. Adar Ayira, project manager at Associated Black Charities, on the Open Society Institute-Baltimore blog. She says that U.S. history courses need to do a better job of incorporating the stories of black people and others who “experienced the ‘backside’ of the American experience.”
- As charities and foundations seek to be better at measuring their effectiveness, they often use surveys, yet fail to understand how to properly poll people and analyze the data, says David Roberts, executive director of New Dominion Philanthropy Metrics, a research company. His views appear on the Philanthropy Action blog.
- Recent political criticism of the New Israel Fund, an international charity with offices in America, may help the group raise its profile and garner more supporters, writes Jacob Berkman, a blog writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
