The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is failing to harness its true potential by simply supporting successful nonprofit groups, according to a nonprofit expert cited in Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.

Plus other highlights in our daily digest of posts worth reading:

• An unusual fund-raising approach

• Why the phrase “social change” is overused

• Complaints about the lack of fresh ideas in a newspaper’s giving section

• Why Kiva’s misstep in its promotions should not cause donors to stop supporting the charity