Give and Take: Downplaying the Charitable Impact of the Estate Tax

National nonprofit associations are misguided in their attempt to get Congress to change the federal estate tax, argues Bill Beach, the director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation, as noted in Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.

Plus:

• Why do so many people want to establish a personal “connection” between donors and small-business owners?

• How Wildlife Direct, an organization based in Kenya, is using social-media tools to raise money.

• A woman from impoverished rural Zimbabwe will receive her Ph.D. next month.

• The new blog from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

• A call for foundations to put more time and money into building philanthropic capacity.”