Thursday, July 1, 2010
Why should people give money to nonprofits responding to the Gulf Coast oil spill? Isn't BP paying for the clean-up efforts? Penny Fujiko Willgerodt, the Executive Director of the Prospect Hill Foundation and an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health (a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors), discusses why NGOs, independent advocacy groups, and community-based organizations are just as important to the relief and recovery efforts as the corporation at the center of the disaster.