- If international charities want coverage of their work and the people they are helping, they need to keep in mind that most journalists don’t have the time or money to jump through unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles, writes Glenna Gordon, a freelance reporter in Liberia, on Change.org’s humanitarian relief blog.
- A “major effort to devise global rating and reporting systems for social enterprise” is likely to be officially unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative next month, writes Anne Field, a reporter for the Internet news site True/Slant.
- In Health Affairs, a policy journal about health care, Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, writes about how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others have sought to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana.
- Sasha Dichter, director of business development at the Acumen Fund, in New York, offers tips on how nonprofit groups can gauge the value of various business deals, donations, and other assistance.
- On the New Philanthropy Capital blog, Eleanor Stringer, a research analyst at the London organization, weighs in on the discussion about “high-performance” charities, prompted by a post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog, by describing the five areas her group analyzes to determine whether a charity is strong or weak.
- On The Chronicle’s Prospecting blog, William Woods University, in Fulton, Mo., has submitted a fund-raising letter to be critiqued by Chronicle readers. Suggestions and constructive feedback can be written in the blog’s comment area.
