Bush Transition Sparks Internet Campaign
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral progressive advocacy groups have launched a coordinated Internet campaign to voice their concerns about the Bush administration. For the first 100 days of the new administration, the TransitionWatch.org Web site and e-mail newsletter will feature news and action alerts from…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Group Seeks to Promote Online Giving
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization has been created to promote an environment in which contributors feel comfortable making gifts online. It also hopes to help charities use the Internet to strengthen their relationships with donors. As its first order of business, ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: The Community Collaborative Fund; Additions to TechSoup
By NICOLE WALLACE Verizon Communications has contributed the first $2.5-million of the $25-million it plans to give to the Community Collaborative Fund. The fund will award grants to California programs that bring information technology to the poor, as well as to members of minority groups and the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Domestic-Violence Victims Aided by Cell-Phone Drive
By NICOLE WALLACEThe wireless-telephone industry is deploying its products in the fight against domestic violence -- and asking the public to pitch in, too. Since 1996, the Call to Protect program has put 21,000 mobile phones in the hands of victims of domestic violence. The program is sponsored by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Technology Program Increases Grants to Charities
By NICOLE WALLACEThe U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program will award approximately $42.5-million in grants this year, up from $12.5-million in 2000. Started in 1994, the program awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to integrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Telecommunications Merger Leads to New Foundation
By NICOLE WALLACEThe day after America Online and Time Warner completed their merger, the new company announced that the AOL and Time Warner Foundations would be merging as well. The new AOL Time Warner Foundation will be based in New York and Dulles, Va. The fund will focus its giving in the areas…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
By NICOLE WALLACE The Benton Foundation has published a packet of resources, Public Media in the Digital Age, that discusses how communities are using public broadcasting, cable-access channels, and online community networks to strengthen education, social services, health care, and civic…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Financial Turbulence Hits Charity Sites
By NICOLE WALLACEInternet start-ups focusing on the nonprofit world have not been immune to the financial turbulence that has hit the high-tech industry. Two online giving portals have ceased operations. The founders of Shine, whose preview site went online in April, decided not to move forward…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Circuit Riders’ Travel to Spread the Gospel of Technology and Training
By STEPHEN G. GREENERosa María Ruiz spends much of her time in remote reaches of Bolivia’s ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
New Technology System Allows Arthritis Charity to Be Efficient and Flexible
By GRANT WILLIAMSThree years ago, the Arthritis Foundation realized it had a big decision ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
California Charities Share Their Technology Tips and Frustrations
Wired for Good, a project of the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting ‘Wired’New…
Program Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting ‘Wired’
By GRANT WILLIAMSThe Jack Douglas Center, a program in San Jose, Calif., that provides ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsCalifornia Charities Share Their Technology Tips and…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Technology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big Results
By STEPHEN G. GREENELast September, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting ‘Wired’California Charities Share Their Technology Tips and…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
New Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of Technology
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNMcLean, Va. In a Washington suburb, high-technology entrepreneurs Arthur ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting ‘Wired’California Charities Share Their Technology Tips…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Many charities struggle to make effective use of new technologyAt the start of the 21st century, the nonprofit world is far from ready to take full advantage of the flowering of the Information Age. A few groups have found that by exploiting the Internet and ALSO SEE: New Fund Exposes Charities to…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Bits: Online Volunteerism Journal; AIDS Project Uses Excess Computational Power
By NICOLE WALLACE
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor