Technology Experts Volunteer Overseas
By NICOLE WALLACETechnology-savvy volunteers are working on projects in developing countries through a number of new programs. The United Nations Information Technology Service (http://www.unites.org) encourages both international volunteers and volunteers in the countries it serves to sign up for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Grant Makers Share Information Online
By NICOLE WALLACEHealth foundations in California are using an extranet to share information about their grant making with one another. An extranet is a private Web site that staff members from more than one organization use to share information, whereas an intranet is a Web site restricted to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Data Standards and a Survey on Non-Profit Issues
By NICOLE WALLACE The Open Philanthropy Exchange Forum, a group of technology companies that provide products and services for charities, will meet in Chicago on September 21 to discuss the non-profit data-exchange protocol it introduced this summer (The Chronicle, August 10). The protocol is a set…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
N.Y. Activist Finances Online Lobbying Campaign
By NICOLE WALLACEAn activist in New York has invested $43,000 of her own money -- and countless hours of her time -- in an online lobbying campaign to persuade Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Irene Weiser, a mediator at a dispute-resolution center, also heads the board of a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Microsoft Gift to Lift Technology Efforts
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Microsoft Corporation will contribute $10-million in cash and $15-million in software over five years to develop technology-assistance programs for charities nationwide. The gift is part of a partnership between Microsoft and NPower that will allow the Seattle charity, which…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Cancer Executive Admits to Stealing
A former top executive of the American Cancer Society’s Ohio Division has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $7.8-million from the charity. Daniel S. Wiant, chief administrative officer in the society’s Ohio headquarters, admitted that, dating back to 1997, he had engaged in bank fraud, money…
Bits: Internet Philanthropy Conference, Tool for Donors, and the Digital Divide
By NICOLE WALLACE A conference to discuss the role of technology in philanthropy, “Expanding Philanthropy through the Internet,” will be held in San Jose, Calif., September 25-26. The meeting is a follow-up to a forum, “E-Philanthropy: Technology and the Nonprofit Community,” held last October as…
2004 Olympics Organizers Seek Advice on Internet
By NICOLE WALLACEAs Sydney gears up for this year’s Olympic Games, the host of the 2004 Games is using the Internet to seek advice from volunteers at previous Olympics. The Greek Deputy Ministry of Sports has created a Web site, Volunteer 2004, where volunteers at past Olympic Games and other elite…
Gifts of Computing Power Aid Cancer Research
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Compute Against Cancer campaign lets computer users donate their machines’ unused processing power to cancer-research efforts. Parabon Computation is a company in Fairfax, Va., that takes large research problems and divides them into much smaller tasks that individual computers…
New Technology Group Sets Future Agenda
By NICOLE WALLACEA new membership group, the Non-Profit Technology Enterprise Network, has announced its plans for bringing together non-profit organizations and consultants who provide technology assistance to charities. The organization, also known as N-TEN, was formed last fall and grew out of…
Bits: KickStart.com Shuts Down
By NICOLE WALLACE KickStart.com, a Web site that allowed shoppers to designate a portion of their online purchases to charity, discontinued its service August 10. In an e-mail message sent to people who had registered with the site, the Denver company said: “The ability of Internet companies to…
World War II Memories Captured on Web Site
By NICOLE WALLACEA San Francisco charity has created a Web site that allows people who lived through World War II to share their memories of that time -- with one another and with younger generations. The Ameritech World War II Living Memorial is a project of SeniorNet, an organization that teaches…
Online News Service Helps Charities
By NICOLE WALLACEAScribe, a news wire dedicated to distributing press releases from non-profit organizations, hopes to help charities reach both traditional and online news organizations. More than 50 daily and weekly publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week, and…
$6-Million for Grants to Close ‘Digital Divide’
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Community Technology Foundation of California has awarded $6.2-million in its inaugural round of grant making. The San Francisco fund awarded the money to 86 California charities to help bring the benefits of information technology to poor people, members of minority groups,…
Family-Planning Campaign Makes Use of Internet
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Internet plays a central role in a new campaign to raise awareness about international family planning. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, in Los Altos, Calif., is working with several non-profit organizations -- including CARE, the National Audubon Society, and…
World Leaders Seek to Bridge Digital Divide
By NICOLE WALLACEGovernments, grant makers, corporations, and non-profit organizations are turning their attention from the domestic to the global digital divide. The gap between technology use in North America and Western Europe and in the rest of the world was on the agenda at last month’s G-8…