November 05, 2009
British Donors Urged to Go Public With Their Big Gifts, and More: Thursday's Roundup
- Dame Stephanie Shirley, Britain’s ambassador for philanthropy, is urging philanthropists to be more public about their giving and get charities to focus more on results, writes Lena Schreiber, a senior consultant at New Philanthropy Capital, a nonprofit research group in London. Her views appear on the group’s blog.
- As another charity scandal gets headlines, the nonprofit world “will have to work harder to ensure that we are letting our supporters know that we not only do good works but that we do them well and we are, therefore, worthy of their gifts and of their trust,” writes Janet Levine, a fund-raising consultant, on her blog.
- Using the online tool Twitter for social change is all about “making sure the message you want to put out there is simple, direct, and genuine,” Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, tells Huffington Post.
- Rick Cohen, national correspondent at the Nonprofit Quarterly, examines whether legislation introduced in the Senate and House will help newspapers transform into nonprofit organizations.
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Hey, I think it’s terrific that the United Kingdom has its “first ambassador of Philanthropy.”
Are there any proposals in the USA for a similar position and also, are there any state level positions with a similar focus?
Regards,
Bill Huddleston
www.cfcfundraising.com
Blog:www.cfctreaures.wordpress.com
— Bill Huddleston Nov 5, 01:42 PM #
I would be hard-pressed to come up with a worse prescription for rescuing newspapers than electing nonprofit status.
Allthough it has recently shamefully fallen down on the job, we rely on the press to be a watchdog of our democracy and a free and open society. To place the press in a position where government regulation makes it more dependent upon government than private commercial entities imperils its objectivity and will irretreivably undermine its credibility.
This is more than a slippery slope. It is a precipice.
— Jeff Steele Nov 8, 01:21 AM #