Online Advocacy: Resources for Nonprofit Groups
Activist Toolkit Developed by ONE/Northwest, a nonprofit group in Seattle that provides technology assistance to environmental organizations, this Web site explains how to use e-mail and the Internet for communicating with supporters, organizing, and advocating for causes.…
Edgy Online Advocacy Campaign Clicks With Young Activists
A coalition of more than 80 environmental groups in British Columbia has been working ALSO SEE:Taking Action OnlineCareful Planning Is Key to Success of Online Advocacy, Charity Leaders SayOnline Advocacy: Resources for Nonprofit Groups for six years to secure both national and provincial…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Careful Planning Is Key to Success of Online Advocacy, Charity Leaders Say
Nonprofit organizations have learned that running a successful online advocacy effort ALSO SEE:Taking Action OnlineEdgy Online Advocacy Campaign Clicks With Young ActivistsOnline Advocacy: Resources for Nonprofit Groups takes more than asking members to flood their elected representatives with…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Advocacy groups pursue local issues with e-mail alertsWhile e-mail alerts and sample “Dear Senator” letters on Web sites have become staples of most national ALSO SEE:Careful Planning Is Key to Success of Online Advocacy, Charity Leaders SayEdgy Online Advocacy Campaign Clicks With Young…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Minnesota’s Freeze Hinders AIDS Group
Last month’s announcement by Minnesota’s Department of Finance that it was freezing ALSO SEE:War and Recession: A Challenge for CharitiesTrimming Holiday HopesAtlanta Arts Coalition Braces for Lean Performance in 2002Youth Group Asks Loyal Donors to Remove Strings on Their GiftsStar Widens Refugee…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
South African Charity Among Tech-Award Winners
Four individuals and one charity were honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative use of technology to benefit society. The San Jose, Calif., museum received more than 390 nominations, representing 50 countries. A group of judges assembled by Santa Clara University’s Center for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Technology Fund Will Provide Equipment
The Oracle Corporation, in Redwood Shores, Calif., has created a new grant-making organization to increase access to the Internet in schools and nonprofit organizations that serve young people from needy families. The company has committed to provide $6-million worth of equipment in the Oracle Help…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Tech Companies Team Up to Form Charity Site
AOL Time Warner, Cisco Systems, and Yahoo have joined together to start a new philanthropy Web site -- and a nonprofit organization to run it. The site, Network for Good, incorporates the tools and resources of Helping.org, the online giving site that the AOL Time Warner Foundation has operated…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Peace Corps Offers Teachers Advice on Integrating Volunteer Projects into Lesson Plans
“Contributor Relationship Management: How Nonprofits Can Harness the Power of Technology to Build One-to-One Relationships” discusses how charities can raise more money by using database and Internet technology to tailor interactions with donors to the specific interests donors care about. Shirley…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundation Puts Housing Data Online
Working with 19 national nonprofit organizations, the Fannie Mae Foundation has created an online resource for information on housing and community development. KnowledgePlex features a library of reports, articles, and case studies organized by category. For example, the section of the library on…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Promotes New Holiday Tradition
Rather than heading to the mall the day after Thanksgiving, a group of volunteers plans to spend the day helping the causes they care about -- and they’re using e-mail and the Internet to ask America to join them. The volunteers call their effort Giving Day, and they hope the idea will catch on and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Computer Security, Technology-Assistance Group Membership, and Diversifying Arts Organizations
The October 22 issue of NetAction Notes outlines computer-security basics for nonprofit organizations. Topics discussed include virus protection, firewalls, procedures to back up information, and security measures for e-mail lists and other computer files. NetAction is a San Francisco organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Get Advice on Marketing Pacts
Charities can turn to a new online resource for advice on marketing partnerships with corporations. Mission & Market, which was created by Independent Sector, an association of charities and grant makers, provides facts and figures on marketing relationships between charities and companies,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
8 Charities Win Software Grants
The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has awarded more than $7.6-million in software to eight nonprofit organizations through its Technology Leadership Grant program. The largest grant, $2.7-million in software, was awarded to the National Urban League, in New York. The league currently…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Program Adds New Locations
Strategic Technology helps nonprofit executives assist one another and develop technology plans for their organizations. Now the program, which started in New England, is expanding to other cities. Last fall, nonprofit organizations in Springfield and Worcester, Mass., participated in the first…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Job Openings by E-Mail, and an Archive of Politicians’ Promises
A new e-mail notification service publicizes job openings in nonprofit technology. It is run by Deborah Elizabeth Finn of TechFoundation, in Cambridge, Mass. To subscribe: Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nonprofit_Tech_Jobs. The California Voter Foundation has added an Archive of Campaign…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor