Jennifer Moore

President Obama gave few clues in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night about what his proposed 2011 budget might hold for social services or other areas of interest to nonprofit groups, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

While President Obama was on Washington’s Capitol Hill reflecting on his first year in office during his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, another top White House official was in Los Angeles urging foundations to take greater risks, reports The Chronicle’s Government and Politics Watch column.

As relief work in Haiti continues, a wave of volunteer technology efforts has sprouted up using social media and mobile phones to help the earthquake victims, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

“With America’s attention already shifting away from the disaster in Haiti,” the chief operating officer at Network for Good suggests that relief groups keep donors interested by signing them up for monthly gifts and asking for new donations at the six-month or one-year anniversary of the earthquake, notes Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.

Plus:

• Questions about the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.

• Advice on cause-marketing campaigns.

• Brainstorming about mobile-phone applications for community foundations.

• Why the lack of minority head coaches in the National Football League “is an embarrassment to the nonprofit field.”

The percentage of American adults who volunteer rose slightly in 2009, as did the overall number of people who gave their time, according to new figures released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.