February 16, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Is social entrepreneurship an oxymoron? Sanjay Anandaram, co-founder of JumpStartUp, a venture-capital fund, says in some sense the answer is yes, but he still calls on more wealthy investors to support for-profit efforts that seek to have a charitable benefit for society. His views appear on a Wall Street Journal blog.
- More philanthropic dollars are now going to help women and girls, says the feminist author Gloria Steinem in an interview on the Foundation Center’s blog. Ms. Steinem applauded these efforts, saying that more foundations are supporting such causes abroad, while more wealthy American women are giving to them domestically.
- The British government should follow the Obama administration’s lead and establish a Social Innovation Fund to support effective charitable programs, says Stephen Dawson, co-founder of the Impetus Trust, a grant maker in London. His views appear in Social Enterprise magazine.
- As cities on the East Coast continue to dig out from this season’s record snowfall, the tough winter conditions should remind nonprofit groups to develop good emergency plans for when bad weather — or worse — hits, writes Barbara Talisman, a charity consultant, on her blog.
- During his radio show last week, the conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh raised his objections to so-called L3Cs, low-profit businesses that have a social mission. Mr. Limbaugh said the new type of company, which several states have approved, boils down to “social engineering in the private sector.”
