May 3, 2001 | Read Time: 2 minutes
By NICOLE WALLACE
Several new electronic newsletters offer charities free advice about how to use information technology in their work and in their fund raising.
- Published monthly by two nonprofit technology consultants, Marc Osten and Michael Stein, Dot Org offers charities advice on how to use information technology more effectively. Each issue focuses on a single topic. The first issue discusses electronic newsletters, and future issues will explore topics like increasing Web-site traffic, asking for donations online, and evaluating Internet activities. To subscribe: Send a blank e-mail message to dotorg-subscribe@topica.com.
- Funding Pool, a nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore., that helps other charities make use of technology, publishes E-Philanthropy Update, a weekly e-mail newsletter that provides advice and articles on online fund raising. To subscribe: Go to http://www.fundingpool.com/ephilanthropyupdate.htm.
- Twice a month, Internet Advocacy Newsletter offers charities advice on using information technology in their advocacy work and highlights reports and articles on the subject published by other organizations. To subscribe: Send a blank e-mail message to subscribe@theadvocacygroup.net.
- The Internet Fundraiser provides a monthly look at trends in online fund-raising campaigns. The newsletter is published by Changing Our World, an Internet business formed by two fund-raising consulting companies, Mike Hoffman Associates and CTE Associates, both in New York. To subscribe: Go to http://www.changingourworld.com.
- Every two weeks, Matrix-news reports on the comings and goings of companies that provide technology services to nonprofit organizations. The e-mail newsletter is part of the Nonprofit Matrix, a Web site developed by Hewitt and Johnston Consultants, a fund-raising consulting company in Toronto, that provides information about companies that lease software to charities over the Internet, online giving sites, shopping sites that allow customers to designate a portion of their purchases to charity, online event-management and auction services, and companies that process online donations. To subscribe: Go to http://www.nonprofitmatrix.com.
- Published monthly by Jayne Cravens, an online volunteering specialist at United Nations Volunteers, in Bonn, Germany, Tech4impact profiles nonprofit organizations that are successfully using technology in their work and describes online resources of interest to charities. To subscribe: Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tech4impact.
