Northwestern Grant Makers Decrease Giving, and More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
September 30, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- While 42 percent of foundations in the northwest plan to decrease their giving in 2009 by 10 percent or more, grant makers in the region are trying to be more creative in how they help poor people and assist grant recipients, writes Carol Lewis, chief executive of Philanthropy Northwest, a Seattle coalition of foundations and corporations in six Northwest states, on her group’s Web site.
- Holden Karnofsky questions the value of supporting scholarships for students in developing countries on the blog of GiveWell, a charity he started to identify the best nonprofit groups.
- ProPublica and other nonprofit online newspapers are quickly learning how to raise money effectively, acknowledging that generating philanthropic interest is key to their future success, writes Alan D. Mutter on his blog. Mr. Mutter, a former newspaper editor, is a media consultant and teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.
