Bill Gates’s Take on ‘Quiet Emergencies,’ Plus More: Tuesday’s Roundup
January 26, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Americans should be applauded for their generous response to the recent disaster in Haiti, but they should also remember the quiet emergencies facing the world’s poor, says Bill Gates in an interview with The Daily Beast. “Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work,” he says.
- Given his policies toward Haiti while he was president, Bill Clinton should not play a large role in leading relief and recovery efforts for the island nation, says Mary Anastasia O’Grady, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
- The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to lift restrictions on corporate and labor-union political campaign spending means nonprofit groups, which continue to face limitations on electioneering, need to band together to make sure political candidates understand their needs, says Robert Egger, founder of the V3 Campaign.
- Michael Edwards, a former Ford Foundation official and author of a new book on the limits of business approaches to philanthropy, says that “eroding the transformative potential of civil society may be one of the long-term consequences of the coming revolution in philanthropy.”
- Nonprofit Mapping, a volunteer effort to provide more data about the nonprofit world, has produced an interactive map of America examining how much information each state collects on charities.
