Friday, July 25, 2014
More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups
If foundations want social change groups to have more impact, they need to step up investments that will help them make better use of technology, writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an op-ed the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
The four -- Mannion, director of Carnegie's U.S. Democracy Program and the Special Opportunities Fund; Berta Colón and Michele Lord, co-directors of Public Interest Projects; and Cynthia Gibson, an independent consultant -- write: "Foundations that care about changing the world need to think hard about the risk of not providing nonprofits the money and other resources they need to go digital."...