The Nuts and Bolts of Nonprofit Collaboration; and More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 27, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- To be effective, discussions about nonprofit collaboration need to move beyond “communicating and coordinating or creating harmony” to a nuts-and-bolts conversation about the people and resources that groups are willing to contribute to a joint effort, John Brothers, a management consultant, writes in the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog.
- Beth Kanter, who writes a blog about social media, summarizes several recent reports that discuss how organizations can measure the impact of their social-media efforts.
- Lawrence Harmon, of the Boston Globe, reviews the new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which the author and historian Diane Ravitch criticizes the education philanthropy of Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other so-called venture capitalists as thoughtless experimentation.
- On The New York Times‘s DealBook blog, the writer Paul Sullivan talks about the growing field of “impact investing” — investing designed to bring about social change.
