Will Charities Emerge Stronger From the Recession, and a Pitch for ‘Patient Capital’: Friday’s Roundup
- Mitch Nauffts, editorial director of Philanthropy News Digest, makes a case on the Philantopic blog as to why the nonprofit world might just come out of the recession stronger than before.
- The marketing expert Seth Godin explains how nonprofit groups need to develop “patient capital” to solve major problems rather than working in a state of endless emergency on Seth’s Blog.
- The nonprofit effort One Laptop per Child has run into financial and technical trouble, but is that really a bad thing?, asks Timothy Ogden in an article in Miller McCune Online Magazine. Mr. Ogden, editor in chief of the publication Philanthropy Action, argues there are cheaper and more effective ways to help children in poor countries than providing them with laptop computers.
- The Nichi Bei Times, a Japanese-American newspaper, announced yesterday it will close as a business but may return as a nonprofit group. But if the newspaper couldn’t survive as a business, what makes people hopeful it can thrive as a charity in a time when getting donations for new projects is very difficult?, asks Mike Burns, a consultant to nonprofit groups, on the Nonprofit Board Crisis blog.
- Nathaniel Whittemore, director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, writes on Change.org about maximizing “ecosystems” of charities of various sizes that work on the same and related issues.
