Last April, two lists of recommended blogs for nonprofit readers were published three days apart. One was The Chronicle of Philanthropy‘s “A Word Cloud of Popular Charity Blogs” based on an online survey of fund-raising experts at U.S. charities. The other was Owen Barder’s list of “Development Blogs You Should Read.” I was startled and concerned when I discover that the two lists didn’t have a single blog in common.
I know that aid workers and nonprofit fund raisers have different jobs and different professional needs. And I know that only a small fraction of nonprofits work internationally. But shouldn’t there be at least a little overlap between the fund raisers and the field staff? In theory we all have the same end goal in mind, so a greater mutual understanding might help reduce some of the problems that regularly occur.
Richenda Ghebrial-Ibrahim, who works with social…
