- Applying competitive business practices to charitable operations makes sense, but many nonprofit officials and donors still fail to recognize this, says Dan Elitzer, a management consultant writing on the Full Contact Philanthropy blog. He uses Dan Pallotta’s book Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential as a jumping off point for his discussion.
- Robert Egger, executive director of D.C. Central Kitchen, a food bank in Washington, writes on his blog about his visit to Denver, where he spoke to members of the Young Nonprofit Professional Network. He lists 10 tips he suggested to the group’s members about ways to change and “ripen” the nonprofit sector.
- On his Gifthub blog, Phil Cubeta, a wealth adviser, writes about ways wealth advisers and nonprofit groups can form partnerships with what he calls “board-level wealth.”
- On Bread for the World’s Bread Blog, Roger Thurow, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, writes about last week’s establishment of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, in Washington, and argues that Congress should appropriate money for the program.
