501(c)Suck gears up for constructive disgruntlement.

Check out this new blog:

501(c)Suck

The subtitle is "Nonprofits, behaving badly," and the blog's avowed purpose is to "critique nonprofits and funders, by name whenever possible, that are unethical, dishonest, corrupt, myopic, ridiculuous, or just generally lame."

It's so nice to see kindred spirits in the blogosphere. Maybe the authors and I can arrange to cover for each other during vacations.

A new blog: Rorschach test for nonprofit management gurus?

Check out this new blog: Today I Cried - Thoughts On Nonprofit Information Technology.

The anonymous writer has apparently just taken a new job as "the sole technology person at a downtown Manhattan non-profit," and is documenting his or her experiences. (Call me sexist, but I'm leaning toward the assumption that a blog titled "Today I Cried" is written by a woman.)

My guess is that this blog will turn into a Rorschach test for anyone who aspires to be a nonprofit management or strategic technology pundit.

When you read about her first day on the job, what do you find yourself thinking?

• This organization is a perfect example of everything that is ineffectual and annoying about the nonprofit sector.

• There's hope here, because at least the organization recognizes the need to do something.

• This technology manager must have been a glutton for punishment, to take the job.

My theory is that our responses will say more about us than what's going on there. There just isn't enough information to assess the situation. But that won't stop me, or other readers, from seeing this anonymous IT manager's experiences at an unnamed nonprofit as confirmation of all our gut feelings about the state of the sector.

Separated at birth?

If you're not already reading Hail, Sons & Daughters of Carnegie by "Phil Anthropoid," I hope that you'll make the acquaintance of this curmudgeon of the foundation blogosphere. Phil is definitely a kindred spirit, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the long-lost evil twin.