- The recent controversy about an effort to evaluate aid charities working in Haiti is a sign that some charity information services are off base, writes David Henderson, chief executive of a technology organization that works with social-service groups, on his blog.
- While Causes, the application that helps charities raise money on Facebook, announced this week that it’s processed more than $20-million since 2007, social media is still more about engaging people than it is raising money, writes Amy Sample Ward, global community development manager at NetSquared.
- Writing on a blog for The Financial Times from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Melinda Gates, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is promoting philanthropic efforts to help women and children in poverty-stricken countries.
- As relief efforts in Haiti continue, are religious aid organizations helping the country’s gay people? The Rev. Irene Monroe raises this question on the Bilerico Project, a blog about gay issues.
- Is a recent report that says volunteerism rose slightly in 2009 good or bad news? Joanne Fritz, a former nonprofit executive, examines this question on her About.com blog.
- Rosetta Thurman, a consultant to charities, reflects on what the financial problems facing Idealist.org, a Web site that posts nonprofit jobs, means for organizations that provide services to other charities.
