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California has officially declared October 1 "Plan Your Giving Day". The effort looks to build on the Gates/Buffett Giving Pledge.
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This is hands down the best headline I've seen in a long time. Microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is going to guest star in The Simpsons.
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What an unusual and fantastic story. A 12-year-old "do-gooder prodigy". His mom's quote: "He’s just like every other kid, except he likes to do community service work for some odd reason. He likes doing it. It’s weird."
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A reader recently argued that measuring nonprofit results wasn't as hard as picking what to measure. In this NY Times article, the author argues that test scores are the wrong outcomes to look at when measuring teaching results. Instead, we need to look at adult life outcomes and the data shows that better teaching leads to higher adult income for students.