Technology Bits: Board Listings and an Effort to Close the “Digital Divide”

September 9, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* BoardClassifieds, a new Web site, lists available trustee positions at non-profit organizations in the San Francisco area and allows candidates to submit their applications on line. The Web site is run by the Volunteer Center of San Francisco and the Support Center for Nonprofit Management/NDC, in San Francisco. Non-profit groups pay $60 per quarter to list their board openings. To get there: Go to http://www.boardclassifieds.org.

* The Benton Foundation, in Washington, will be working with the AOL Foundation, in Dulles, Va., to create the Digital Divide Clearinghouse. The clearinghouse will operate a Web site that provides information on research and programs that deal with the disparity in access to technology between the rich and poor and among racial and ethnic groups. The site will also include a searchable data base of organizations, such as community technology centers and grant makers that are interested in technology.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.