Can True Activism Be Fostered Through Social-Networking Sites?
Dear Malcolm Gladwell: The nonprofit technology world is not very happy with you. Mr. Gladwell’s article in this week’s New Yorker magazine, criticizing the hype about social media’s ability to stir...
View ArticleWhy Is the Gates Foundation Giving So Much Money to Journalists?
A $1.5-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ABC News has led some observers to wonder why the philanthropy is helping a for-profit news organization. The grant is also raising...
View ArticleHumanitarianism, What Is It Good For?
There’s a new addition to the expanding library of books that question the effectiveness of international aid: The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? The book, by the journalist Linda...
View Article“Fix It” Approach to Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work, Writer Says
Nicholas Kristof’s recent front-page article in The New York Times Magazine, “The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution,” highlights Americans who, struck by poverty in the developing world, dash off to do...
View ArticleDonors Who Couldn’t Care Less About the Cause?
Most donors choose a few areas to support about which they are passionate—the arts and education, say, or climate change and child health. Sean Stannard-Stockton, an adviser to donors and a Chronicle...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t the Giving Pledge Attracted More Donors?
It was, perhaps, philanthropy’s biggest news of the year: 40 of America’s wealthiest families announced in August that they were joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in pledging to give at least half...
View ArticleHow Useful Are ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Charity Evaluations?
It’s one big challenge everyone in the nonprofit world wants to crack: finding a simple way that ordinary donors can evaluate charity effectiveness. In a recent issue of The Chronicle, Sean...
View ArticleCholera in Haiti: Do Aid Groups Deserve Some of the Blame?
Aid groups are scrambling to respond to the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti—and to answer questions about whether they did enough to prevent the disease, which has claimed more than 1,100 lives. A...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst of Corporate Giving in 2010
What were the smartest—and silliest—corporate contributions of 2010? Rachel Bellow and Suzanne Muchin, of ROI Ventures—a Chicago company that works with donors, business people, and nonprofits on...
View ArticleHas the ‘Girl Effect’ Been Good for Antipoverty Efforts?
Remember the “Girl Effect,” the Nike Foundation’s two-year-old initiative to encourage philanthropic and government investments in girls? Thanks largely to a catchy video (below), the effort has become...
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