• With America’s attention already shifting away from the disaster in Haiti, Katya Andresen, chief operating officer at Network for Good, suggests that relief groups keep donors interested by signing them up for monthly gifts and asking for new donations at the six-month or one-year anniversary of the earthquake. Her views appear on her personal blog.

• Some people are questioning whether the Huffington Post Investigative Fund is a legitimate charity venture given its close relationship with the for-profit Huffington Post, writes John Cook, a reporter for Gawker. In response to his article, the Huffington Post says it provides money and pro-bono public-relations assistance to the investigative fund but that the fund is a separate entity.

• To develop a good cause-marketing campaign, in which a company and nonprofit group work together to raise money for a charitable effort, charities must…

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• Allyson Kapin, an editor at Care2, an online community devoted to social change, discusses how charities can develop effective mobile giving campaigns. Her post includes tips for setting up and marketing such efforts, as well as a description of some of the downsides of mobile giving.

• Trevor Neilson, president of the Global Philanthropy Group, writes on Huffington Post that the slowness of the Hope for Haiti telethon’s online and phone system may have deterred some giving. The telethon had raised $58-million as of Saturday, according to a spokesman for MTV.

• While donors should scrutinize the expenses of the charities they support, they should not focus too closely on nonprofit salaries without the context of the groups’ overall costs and revenues, advises Betsy Brill, a donor consultant, in Forbes magazine.

• Writing about the new book The Power of Half, about an Atlanta family who …

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