Rosetta Thurman, the consultant and co-author of How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar, has published a list of the top 10 young bloggers who write about nonprofit issues. This “new generation,” according to Ms. Thurman, is notable for their leadership in using online influence to spread progressive ideas.

Her list features:

• Allison Jones, a fund raiser who writes on social justice and nonprofit leadership.
• Akhila Kolisetty works at a civil-rights law firm in Washington and covers legal issues on the blog Justice for All.
• Ian David Moss, research director at Fractured Atlas, a New York group that provides services to artists nationwide, discusses the arts and the economy on Createquity.
• Sam Davidson, an author and co-founder of the company Cool People Care, who writes about nonprofit issues at samdavidson.net.
• Elisa Ortiz, a manager at the nonprofit Smart…

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Glenn Beck, the Fox News host, is taking aim at George Soros, the billionaire known for his support of liberal causes, with a pair of video segments that seek to discredit Mr. Soros’s philanthropy.

In a segment that aired Tuesday on Mr. Beck’s talk show, the conservative commentator portrayed Mr. Soros as the man responsible for national currency devaluation and America’s economic collapse and says he has been working in secret to overthrow the U.S. government.

Mr. Beck also ties Mr. Soros to financing and inciting revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and the former Czechoslovakia. “So what is his target now?” asks the narrator in the video segment. “Us. America.”

That portrayal is causing a lot of criticism and fact checking. Several of these revolutions had the effect of ousting communist dictators from power, writes Oliver Willis of  Media Matters for America, a nonprofit that…

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For as long as nonprofit groups have used social-media tools, they have faced the perplexing problem of Internet money math: How do all of those supporters and friends add up to real dollars in the door?

But Zachary Sniderman, an assistant features editor for Mashable.com, suggests that money shouldn’t necessarily be the object of nonprofit groups’ social-media efforts. Social good, after all, is also about the process of bringing people together.

Take the Livestrong campaign. The group behind the ubiquitous golden wristband, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, recently started a Facebook campaign that encouraged fans to share their personal cancer stories on the social-networking Web site. The foundation wasn’t trying to raise money through this effort. It was trying to bring people together behind its cause.

In this case, Mr. Sniderman writes, “the community is the end goal.” The campaign …

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