Transparency International has put together a handbook on preventing corruption in humanitarian orgs.

"Poor people are not victims awaiting rescue." Relief and development done the right way: kickstarting businesses. They also have a line of farm industry-related equipment that can be purchased by third-world entrepreneurs.

Creative Commons, indi media related to NYU life. Project by Cody Brown.

Clay Shirky dissects a small town newspaper. 6 reporters out of a
staff of 59. A nonprofit model for reportage suddenly seems feasible.

...combating malnutrition through fortified peanut butter. Mark Arnoldy is a CU Alum and involved locally through Globe Med.

Wonderful interface for rolling your own custom RSS feeds to contain the topics you're interested in. This is what RSS is for!

Gold, every bit of it. Full transcript. Covers ethics, business models and emerging patterns that are working.

"Speaking of Faith" from American Public Media. An MP3 and other interesting articles on the topic.

From the artistic long-form journalism non-profit. The blog focuses on the topics the Foundation is currently covering in its projects. It makes obvious sense, but the blog provides a wonderful back-channel for the story they are telling, clearing the mist from the surroundings of an isolated story and revealing a larger landscape.

A generic business model for Hyperlocal news put together by the CUNY Grad school of journalism.

President of Reuters says he is in favor of the link economy, proposes a collaborative wiki-based process whereby we establish fair use for linking/excerpting with news agencies. CUNY will be holding a symposium and wiki on the topic.

Community funding site has found something interesting: "To date, if a project manages to get to 25% of its funding goal, it has a 94% success rate." This is it. This is a big deal. This allows for the public service that Gandhi talked about, fully reliant on the public.

The source code for spot.us, citizen-funded reporting. Other possibilities: community-funded relief and development projects, community-funded church projects, community-funded charities, community-funded city development, community-funded ____. Puts public service in the hands of the public and keeps it accountable.

A sad and pithy article on the loss of beat reporting because of the death of newspapers. Reads like a film noir monologue, but it's scary to realize it's real.

Causes, effects, small steps

All of her syllabi in one place, free.

@eyeseast's journalism toolkit. Handy links. Related blog post: http://www.chrisamico.com/2008/12/30/new-tools-for-new-news/

...from Beat Blogging

Beth Kanter's (the "Scoble" of non-profits) theory of community networking for non-profits.

Event planning made incredibly simple. No login. No signup.

A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide.

A citizen journalism network of Podcasting stringers. Sweet.

Stories of people who create sustainable markets that benefit underserved communities in the developing world, going beyond charity to find systemic solutions to poverty, education, health and social justice.

Step by step and tools detailing how a real-world non-profit set up on the very cheap

Sick of lugging around that expensive PDA? What is cheaper and more versitile than a piece of paper? How about a piece of paper with checklists, calendars, or even sudoku printed on it. Yeah. That's right. Mix and match your own setup. Sweet.

Be the cool kid, and get all your organization done the hipster way.

Newspaper-style blog design. Very Classy. Very Original