Reacting to the Widening State Budget Gap; Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
January 28, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- As California and other states face widening budget gaps, foundations and charities need to push for changes in state fiscal policies and defend important programs that face cuts, writes Peter Manzo, chief executive of the United Ways of California. His views appear on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog.
- On the blog of Charity Navigator, a nonprofit watchdog, Kamran Razvan, the chief executive of Click & Pledge, responds to questions about how his company is processing gifts made to the embattled Yele Haiti Foundation.
- Jim Hopkins, a former Gannett reporter, examines on his blog the giving of the Gannett Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the news media company, asking why its 2008 giving seems to have supported groups not located in areas where the corporation does business.
- On his blog, William Easterly, an economics professor at New York University and a frequent critic of international aid work, says he is moderating his views of Product Red after meeting with its co-founder, Bobby Shriver. Using product tie-ins with the Gap, Starbucks, and other big companies, the Red campaign raises money to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and for other causes.
