- Academics and experts on the Middle East debate a recent New York Times article describing how tax-deductible gifts from Americans support Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The discussion is featured on a Times blog.
- Melinda Burns, of Miller-McCune, reviews the book Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution From the Global South, in which three British scholars write about how developing countries are reducing poverty by using money from their national budgets to provide cash payments to the poor.
- What key things should nonprofit organizations not do on social media? Sokunthea Sa Chhabra, director of interactive communications at the Case Foundation, considers the question on the fund’s blog. Among her tips: Never erase a tweet or post. “Someone saw it at one point or other,” she writes. “Own up to your actions and words.”
- James Epstein-Reeves, an expert on corporate philanthropy and social responsibility, writes on a Forbes magazine blog about how more and more companies are using the wisdom of the crowd to direct their giving, “democratizing” philanthropy.
