New Site Seeks to Connect Charities With Donors, and More: Wednesday’s Roundup
September 9, 2009, 11:42 am
By Maria Di Mento
- The founders of a charity that provides eye care to both paying and nonpaying customers in the San Francisco area discuss the challenges they face in expanding the model, which is similar to programs in India. The discussion appears on Pioneering Ideas, a blog operated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- A new Web site, DoGoodr.org, which seeks to connect charities with donors, may revolutionize fund raising, says Patrick O’Heffernan, a fund raiser in the San Francisco Bay area, on the Social Edge, a blog by the Skoll Foundation.
- Last week’s Social Capital Markets Conference left many people in the nonprofit world aflutter about the need for better metrics to help donors find the best projects. But Paul Hudnut, who teaches entrepreneurship at Colorado State University, says good projects may not be getting enough money simply because of the “relentlessness” of the market, not because of poor evaluation tools or because too much money is going to poorly performing groups.
- What can philanthropists learn from the controversy surrounding the televised efforts by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, to build a community center in a poor neighborhood in Manchester? Matthew Bishop, an editor at the Economist and the author of a book on philanthropy, discusses that question on his Values blog.
- Jack Siegel, a lawyer and author in Chicago, offers some lessons for charity regulators stemming from the Bernard Madoff scandal.
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