November 10, 2009
A Call for Feed the Children Founder to Step Aside, and More: Tuesday's Roundup
- As a leadership struggle continues to embroil Feed the Children, its founder, Larry Jones, should leave the charity and allow new people to guide it, says an editorial in The Oklahoman.
- Social-media activists are protesting the decision by Causes to stop working with MySpace, saying the move will hamper their work to connect with poor people and racial minorities, writes Joe Solomon with NetSquared, a nonprofit technology program. Causes, an online application that enabled users to raise money for charity on social-media Web sites, said it is leaving MySpace to focus on Facebook.
- Bloggers are beginning to reflect on the second America’s Giving Challenge, in which charities competed to raise the biggest number of “friends” through Facebook’s Causes application. Allison Fine, a Chronicle contributor who writes about social media, notes that small charities again dominated the competition and asks whether large organizations performed poorly or chose not to participate. Nathaniel Whittemore, director of Northwestern University’s Center for Global Engagement, wonders whether the stellar performance of a few groups discouraged other charities.
- Tom Belford, a fund-raising consultant who blogs at the Agitator, disputes a recent Wall Street Journal article suggesting that the “era of e-mail has ended.” Writes Mr. Belford: “If you’re raising money via e-mails, keep right on trucking! And mail some letters too.”
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