Web Site Aims to Evaluate Charities’ Haiti Work
A new Web site aims to use crowdsourcing to gather information on what charities are doing in Haiti.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Volunteer Technology Efforts Help Haiti
As relief work in Haiti continues, a wave of volunteer technology efforts have sprouted up using social media and mobile phones to help the earthquake victims.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Creating Communications Networks for Relief Groups in Haiti
Technology specialists have been working long hours to build communications networks for relief groups that are responding to the disaster.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New York Cancer Center Uses Technology to Predict Who Will Give
How charities of all sizes can use sophisticated software tools to decide which donors deserve attention.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Why the Pennsylvania Ballet Wants Patrons to Turn on Their Cellphones
A ballet troupe is urging people to send text messages during performances -- all in the hope of getting people more involved in what is happening on the stage.
EBay Raised $50-Million in 2009
People are buying less on eBay, but they are donating more. The online-auction site raised 17-percent more for charities last year than in 2009.
Site Raises Money for Savings Programs
A new Web site is helping to raise money for a program to help struggling people save money they can use to go to school or buy a home.
How Technology Will Change Philanthropy
Evolving technology will have far-reaching effects on how the nonprofit world works.
Causes has removed from MySpace its popular application that allows people on social-networking sites to raise money for charities. The company cited a lack of activity on the site and a desire to focus its efforts on its Facebook application as reasons for the decision. The John D. and Catherine…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fortified-Rice Program Wins Award
The Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose, Calif., has presented its annual awards honoring the creative use of technology to benefit societies around the world. PATH, an international-aid organization in Seattle, won the health award for Ultra Rice, manufactured rice grains it developed that are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Housing Groups Get Software Help
Outdated technology is holding back housing organizations as they try to help borrowers caught in the foreclosure crisis apply for loan modifications, say officials at NeighborWorks America, a national network of more than 240 community-development groups. Some organizations lack simple technology,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Event Brings Together Developers for Social Good
The Nonprofit Software Development Summit, in Oakland, Calif., on November 18-20 will bring together programmers and developers who are building or interested in building software and Web tools for charities and social-justice causes. For more information: Go to http://www.aspirationtech.org.…
By NICOLE WALLACE and PETER PANEPENTO
States Share Services Application
One-e-App — short for “one electronic application” — is a Web-based system that allows people in four states to find out whether they are eligible and then apply for a variety of public-health and social-service programs, such as Medicaid, food stamps, and the State Children’s Health Insurance…
By NICOLE WALLACE and PETER PANEPENTO
Web Site Offers Census Details
The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network, a project of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, has created a new Web site that provides information about the 2010 census and materials that nonprofit groups can use to encourage the people they serve to complete their census questionnaires. Visitors to…
By NICOLE WALLACE and PETER PANEPENTO
Conservation Stations Get Solar Power
The Wildlife Conservation Network is bringing sophisticated solar-power systems to scientists who study and protect endangered species in some of the most remote areas on earth — thanks to the efforts of a dedicated volunteer. Six years ago, Stephen Gold attended the Los Altos, Calif.,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Youth Health Care Aided by Technology, Report Finds
A new report outlines promising uses of technology to improve children’s health, describes the barriers that hinder the widespread adoption of such programs, and recommends policy changes that will foster greater use of technology in children’s health care. Among the programs discussed are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor