- The BP oil spill shows that the “blurring of the boundaries” between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors isn’t always a good thing, writes Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. ”Just as we can and should ask whether lax government oversight of the oil industry helped make this disaster possible,” he writes, ”we can and should ask whether nonprofit environmental groups have been as outspoken as they could be — both before the spill and since.”
- On CausePlanet.org, Holly Ross, executive director of the Nonprofit Technology Network, offers advice about how to make time in your day for social media. “Social media is not something you can do once every couple of weeks,” she writes. “It takes daily feeding, which means that you have to make a commitment.”
- Grant makers need to think like storytellers and keep their messages simple, Larry Blumenthal writes on Philanthropy News Digest. Mr. Blumenthal, a nonprofit and foundation consultant, discusses eight ways to become an effective philanthropist. He suggests that grant makers continually remind themselves of the impact they are trying to have and be open to using new approaches to reach their goals.
- Advance planning and marketing is even more important for small arts organizations than for large ones, Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, writes on The Huffington Post.
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