CharityScorecard:To-do

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add content to site
  • create pages for more organizations, and fill out questionnaires
  • page about triage
  • finish how-to about Adding Organizations


outreach
  • Contact Charity Navigator to ask them about using their site as a source of facts and figures for the Charity Scorecard site. (For example, with their permission, we could screen-scrape a great deal of useful info from Charity Navigator pages. Or, instead of screen-scraping, it would be better still if there was some API for getting access to their database.)


interacting with organizations
  • create letter for organizations that seem promising but that we haven't yet filled out any questionnaires for, to invite them to create pages for themselves and start filling out the questionnaires if they care to.
  • create letter to explain project, when asking for information not on their website
  • create letter to go to organizations once they have been scored, to explain the project and encourage them to improve their score
  • add to the Transparency resources page, to offer info about free and open source tools that organizations can use to operate more transparently


learn
  • read about Int$ and PPP, and get a better understanding of what they are


graphic design
  • have a look at Scott McCloud's books, Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics, and think about a logo for the site, as well as some simple graphics and iconography
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boring stuff
  • improve the legal pages: Privacy policy, Terms of Service, and Disclaimers
  • make a Help page about citations
  • figure out how to format the citations. See Cite.php and Footnote 3 for options on footnotes. Cite.php may require downloading help from Gabriel at wikidev.net
  • try to change "Real name (optional)" to "Real name" on the user preferences page



organize a book group to read and discuss Global Crises, Global Solutions
  • send recruiting mail to friends
  • maybe: place an add on craigslist?
  • maybe: look for that website I once saw that was designed for organizing book clubs -- like meetup.com for books
  • maybe: think about having 10 monthly meetings, 1 per chapter


Mail

I've set up three e-mail address at skinnerfund.org. Two are general interest mailing lists, and the other is my own e-mail account. More info at Skinner Fund#Mailing Lists

  • There probably isn't some simple off-the-shelf software that can provide the set of features needed for a transparent e-mail address. As an approximation, I set up the skinner address as just a straightforward mailing list, using conventional mailing list software ( GNU Mailman). That was fairly simple to set up, but may be a little clumsy. When I want to send mail "from" the skinner@... address, I actually have to send the mail from another account, but where that account has skinner@... set as the reply-to address. And whenever I send mail, I need to cc: it to skinner@....
  • Are there other alternatives that would be better?
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