Give and Take: Questioning the Federal Social Innovation Fund

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