The Best and Worst of Katrina Charity, and More: Friday’s Roundup
August 28, 2009, 10:44 am
By Maria Di Mento
- Frustrated in the first year after Hurricane Katrina by what he calls an “uncertain and overly conventional response from the foundation world,” Tony Pipa, founder of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, writes on the Philanthopic blog that the subsequent three years have also provided “several instances of philanthropy at its best.”
- Matthew Bishop, an editor at the Economist magazine, argues on his Values blog that satire about philanthropy—in the form of a new television comedy called The Foundation—could be a good thing for foundations. Nathaniel Whittemore, director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, examines the argument on Change.org.
- Rick Cohen, who writes for The Nonprofit Quarterly, previews the magazine’s discussion of immigration in its next issue with a blog post arguing that more charities need to be speaking up about the issue.
- How can charities comply with security requirements when they accept credit-card donations? On the eJewish Philanthropy blog, Douglas Schoenberg, chief executive of SofterWare, which produces fund-raising software, offers several tips.
- The New York Times Magazine recent series about women in developing countries unfairly portrays Africa and other impoverished regions in part because of its reliance on nonprofit experts and scholars from the West, writes Edwin Okong’o, a Kenyan-born journalist, on his blog.
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