Philanthropy Daily Digest

  • NTEN, ThePort and Common Knowledge have just released a new report on how nonprofits are using social media. 74.2% of nonprofits now have a Facebook page. The survey looks at what else they're doing.
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  • Nathaniel Whittemore discusses the idea of the government providing financing to mid-stage for-profit startups who are being shut out of the capital markets. The financial crisis is showing how critical functioning capital markets are to healthy organizations… social capital markets are of course highly immature and part of the reason we have so few high performing nonprofits.
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