The top ten Facebook posts so far this month by progressive advocacy groups: http://www.epolitics.com/2018/03/13/top-ten-progressive-advocacy-facebook-posts-3-5-3-12-2018/
Silicon Valley and Charities
First, how Facebook’s troubles could impact nonprofits; then how Google’s big journalism initiative is supporting nonprofits as well: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analytica-fundrais/charity-fundraising-after-facebooks-data-breach-risks-but-little-choice-idUSKBN1GY0EZ?elqTrackId=e6d90f50ecea461ba1351e87bdbcf71e&elq=cef82fb5c6af4ed68b8402183aa98abe&elqaid=18284&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8179...
Philanthropy & Community Development
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/03/22/will-michigan-philanthropys-support-economic-development-inclusive/?utm_source=NPQ+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b1ded4632e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94063a1d17-b1ded4632e-12442753Institutional funders and their grantees are expanding and venturing into partnerships with government and for-profit businesses to focus on economic development—my latest Nonprofit...
The Next Generation of Nonprofit Journalists
Northwestern University’s Medill School and the Institute for Nonprofit News will collaborate on a new course this spring offering graduate students experience building an audience for news and helping nonprofit publishers build engagement: https://www.newswise.com/articles/medill,-institute-for-nonprofit-news-partner-on-course-to-help-public-service-news-sites-build-audiences
Nonprofits Get Younger Voters to the Polls
Nonprofit VOTE reports on the impact that nonprofits have on the communities they serve—how the interactions of voters under 30 with nonprofits drove them to the polls more than five points higher than comparable voters: https://t.e2ma.net/message/xvm69/x34lkb
DAF’s and More
Billions of dollars of philanthropic dark money are flowing into so-called donor-advised funds, the black boxes of philanthropy—private foundations and charities, meantime, have devised their own ways to avoid public scrutiny: https://nonprofitchronicles.com/2018/03/20/philanthropys-dark-money/