Is Today’s Philanthropy Different Than Yesterday’s, and More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 1, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- How do you determine when it makes sense to spend a significant chunk of money on a new fund-raising approach? Tom Belford, a fund raiser, has some answers on his blog The Agitator.
- Jack Shafer, a writer for Slate, discusses the downsides of nonprofit journalism in his regular column about the press. He explores, among other arguments, one made by a writer for the East Bay Express newspaper in San Francisco. The writer, Robert Gamm, says that if nonprofit journalism efforts like the Bay Area News Project, which will rely on student interns, cause for-profit ventures to shrink or disappear, Americans will end up relying on “inexperienced, unpaid students” for their news.
- Sean Stannard-Stockton, a philanthropy consultant, explains on his Tactical Philanthropy blog the differences between what some in the nonprofit world refer to as Philanthropy 1.0 — a top-down, altruistic, single donor approach to philanthropy, and Philanthropy 2.0 — a new way of looking at philanthropy that is more of a bottom-up, solutions-driven approach — then asks if the two approaches are really all that different.
