- Peter Taylor, board chair of the James Irvine Foundation, discusses the lessons and challenges he has experienced in his role and offers insight on what nonprofit organizations should expect from their boards. He writes that the foundation’s success will be a result of its board members efforts to engage and learn from other knowledgeable colleagues inside and outside the organization who have expertise in different areas.
- Nonprofit leaders have an amazing privilege and opportunity to help people connect to something larger than their own work, says Jocelyn Harmon, director of nonprofit services at Care2. On her blog, Ms. Harmon argues that nonprofit leaders need to spend less time on the trivialities of running their organizations and more time on becoming visionaries.
- Twitter may drive more traffic to an organzation’s Web site — more than twice as much, in the case of the Nonprofit Technology Network — but Facebook is still great for promoting conversation, writes Holly Ross, who leads the organization.
- Despite Apple’s ban on fund raising in iPhone applications, the company’s share of the smart-phone market is too large for nonprofit organizations to ignore the platform altogether, Geoff Livingston, chief marketing officer at Zoetica, argues on Mashable.
- C.W. Nevius, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, says the city is “saturated” in nonprofit social-service groups and that some ought to be closed.
- Ellen Remmer, of the Philanthropic Initiative, writes about how to keep the momentum of the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge alive.
- The Mott Foundation is using the World Cup soccer games, which are being hosted by South Africa, as a way to highlight some of the work it supports by South African nonprofit organizations. Throughout the month, the Mott Foundation will host on a blog on its Web site with a series of essays written by the leaders of the charities.
