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Technology Group Plans Meeting on Relief Aid

August 18, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network in San Francisco, plans to hold five regional conferences this fall and co-sponsor a conference on the role of technology in humanitarian relief. The network is a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups,

The regional meetings will take place in New York on September 8, in Philadelphia on September 14, in San Diego on September 29, in Washington on October 11, and in Boston on October 21.

Another meeting — “ICT and Humanitarian Relief,” which the network is co-sponsoring with HumaniNet, a charity that provides technology assistance to aid organizations — is scheduled for October 17 in Washington.

The network has also started a series of online seminars on technology topics of interest to nonprofit groups. Future workshops include sessions on blogging, streaming media, and how the Internet has changed volunteering.

For more information: Go to http://www.nten.org.


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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.