Philanthropy/nonprofit/fundraising blog roundup:
- What’s So Great about an MBA?
PhilanTopic: This week the Financial Times ran an article about the growing number of nonprofit employees seeking advanced business degrees. It’s understandable why the FT would be upbeat about the trend, but should the rest of us? Could it be the typical nonprofit is every bit as well led as the typical for-profit, even without MBAs? - Got 5 Minutes? Tell us What 2.0 you Need to Know
TechSoup’s NetSquared project is developing curriculum to help nonprofits use social media effectively. - What to Expect: Meetings
Future Leaders in Philanthropy: If you work for a foundation, it’s inevitable that you and your colleagues will spend a lot of your time either preparing for, attending, or debriefing from a lot of meetings. Surely people working in corporations, for-profit businesses and the nonprofit sector all have meetings too, but it seems to me that the core meetings of the world of private foundations are pretty unique. What’s different about our meetings? - Just the Facts, Ma’am?
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fundraising copywriters reflexively reach for adjectives when describing situations. We sprinkle words like “brutal,” “wonderful,” “terrible,” and “exciting” all over our copy; all of them opinions. Because, after all, a “great program” is better than just a “program,” and a “devastating food shortage” is better than a plain old shortage. Right? Not quite, any more.
