September 8, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- To mark the beginning of the school year, Charity Navigator, a charity watchdog group, has a 12-question quiz on its blog to assess what people know about how charities work.
- Michael Bear Kleinman, who has worked for several international-aid groups, writes on Change.org about the high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder among relief workers. (See The Chronicle‘s articles on this topic).
- Nonprofit groups that drift from their original mission can hurt their efforts and reputation,, writes Arlene M. Spencer, a nonprofit consultant, on her blog. She offers ideas on how to recover.
- Through philanthropy and caring for others “you open a conduit for the kind of happiness that no one can ever steal from you,” writes the spiritual thinker Deepak Chopra in an opinion article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
