Where Most Needed

American Lung Association Loses Stragglers in Strategic Overhaul

A handful of chapters prefer to launch out on their own rather than accept consolidation into larger units as part of a strategic plan to encourage larger donations.    

Where Bono Blunde(red)

A bad PR week for (Product)Red orchestrated out of San Francisco raises doubts about the prospects for a long-term sustainable charity campaign (sorry, business model) based on product sales without grassroots fundraising. 

Looking at Foundations as if They Mattered

A professor sees potential in the rise of incredibly large philanthropic gestures.  But I wonder whether the Gates Foundation is already spread too thin to expect real impact. 

Gates Gift Spotlights Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

This Geneva-based organization tries to coordinate a balanced world-wide response to the top three diseases, with an intense focus on results.