Is Second Life worth a charity’s time?
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Uses Cellphones to Promote Exercise
While it doesn’t burn many calories, text messaging might soon play an important role in the battle of the bulge. America on the Move encourages people to take small steps toward improving their health by walking an extra 2,000 steps a day, roughly a mile, and cutting 100 calories — the equivalent…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Rethink E-Mail Campaigns to Avoid Flooding Donors’ In Boxes
The future of e-mail as an effective tool ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: Still Growing StrongARTICLE: Better Design Nets Charity More Online DonationsARTICLE: Fund Raising Via Personal Web Sites Grows -- but So Do Risks of MisuseARTICLE: How The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fund Raising Via Personal Web Sites Grows, but So Do Risks of Misuse
The Internet is making it simpler — and less painful — than ever for people to raise ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: Still Growing StrongARTICLE: Better Design Nets Charity More Online DonationsARTICLE: Charities Rethink E-Mail Campaigns to Avoid…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Better Design Nets Charity More Online Donations
Officials at the American Heart Association didn’t think that redesigning the donation section of the ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: Still Growing StrongARTICLE: Fund Raising Via Personal Web Sites Grows -- but So Do Risks of MisuseARTICLE:…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online gifts to charities climbed 37 percent in 2006Online giving to the nation’s largest charities continued its steep ascent in 2006, according to a new survey by The Chronicle. Electronic gifts to the 187 ALSO SEE: DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are Raising TABLE: Online…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet Giving: How Much Charities Have Raised in the Past Five Years
2002 2006 Percentage change from 2002-6 Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.) 1 $100 $37,241 37,141.0% Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (White Plains, N.Y.) $240,000 $45,088,098 18,686.7% Junior Achievement (Colorado Springs) 1 $146 $25,481 17,352.7% American Society for Technion-Israel…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Conference to Discuss Municipal Wi-Fi and Broadband Projects Planned for July
“Impact: The Digital Revolution,” a conference to discuss municipal wi-fi and broadband projects, is scheduled to take place in Houston July 26-28. One of the meeting’s sponsors is Technology for All, an organization in Houston that focuses on technology as a way to increase educational and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Web Sites Specialize in Financing Charity Projects
Two new sites, ChangingThePresent.org and Bring Light, are giving donors the opportunity to make gifts that support specific projects, rather than giving general contributions to a charity to use as it chooses. Both sites also give donors the ability to set up online fund-raising drives to raise…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Site Seeks to Spur Donors to Collaborate on Gifts
Change.org, a new giving site, allows donors to work together to raise money for the issues they care about. The site seeks to harness the interactivity of so-called Web 2.0 technologies to promote giving and advocacy, both in the nonprofit world and politics. Visitors to the site can start or join…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor