Applying the eBay Model to Charities, Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
September 28, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- With more than one charity for every 300 Americans, the nonprofit world should consider ways to operate more like Internet companies such as eBay, share back-office expenses, and use other ideas to reshape how they deliver services, argues Paul Lamb, a nonprofit consultant, in an opinion article in The Christian Science Monitor.
- Last week’s Clinton Global Initiative emphasized charitable ideas that can offer investment banks a “route out of their reputational hell,” like supporting the development of women and girls in poor nations, writes Stephen Foley, a columnist for The Independent, a British newspaper.
- Lucy Bernholz, a consultant to foundations, recently asked readers of her blog to submit their answers to the question, “What trend, change, entity, or idea will matter most to the social sector in 2010?” Among the responses: the shuttering of some nonprofit groups and the “‘new normal’ that will emerge.”
- Diana Ayton-Shenker, chief executive of the Fast Forward Fund, which promotes giving among people in their 20s, wonders on the Change.org blog why “we don’t call the world’s 4 billion impoverished people the ‘Global Majority’ rather than the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid.’”
- Phil Cubeta, the self-proclaimed “morals tutor” for the nonprofit world, attempts to determine the size of a charitable deduction for a donor of a stuffed beaver on Gift Hub.
