Here’s your Daily Brief for September 16th:

The Problem with Non (via Seth Godin) – Marketing guru and social venture enthusiast Seth Godin vents his frustration with the lack of prowess of the non-profit sector. He writes that for a sector built around making “change”, they sure seem to abhor change. Seth’s post is eerily reminiscent to what I wrote yesterday about Transparency in the Non-Profit Sector.

An Overview of Response to “The Problem with Non” (via Tactical Philanthropy) – Sean, from Tactical Philanthropy, provides a good overview of the response to Seth Godin’s piece “The Problem with Non” and nicely ties everything together.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy also contributed to the conversation with this awesome podcast exploring the risk aversion of nonprofits to entering the online social media space.

Iraq Approves Plan to Convert Rotting Dates to Bioethanol – Iraq’s two biggest exports used to be dates and oil. Now they are turning the dates into bioethanol. (Insert quip here)

This is actually pretty interesting. I saw on the news the other night that date production in Iraq has really crippled since 2003, so it’s cool to see some innovation being used to revitalize the date farmers. (Granted, it would be cooler if the bioethonol was being generated by Iraqis and not the UAE.)

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