- In the publication Blue Avocado, Rick Cohen, national correspondent with the Nonprofit Quarterly, discusses attacks on charities’ tax-exempt status from money-starved state and local governments.
- Nathaniel Whittemore, founder of the organization Assetmap, writes on the Change.org blog about Vittana, a new online platform that applies the peer-to-peer lending model of Kiva to education loans.
- Matthew Bishop, an editor at The Economist magazine and author of a book on philanthropy, discusses New Philanthropy Capital’s “Manifesto for Social Impact,” which argues that the U.K. government needs to help charities strengthen their ability to measure results. New Philanthropy Capital is a charity-evaluation group in the United Kingdom.
