2 Groups Release Protocols for Data on Donations
By NICOLE WALLACEThe issue of data standards for the non-profit world is heating up. Two for-profit organizations have released non-profit data-exchange protocols. The protocols are specifications for formatting data about charitable donations so that information about gifts can move easily between…
Bits: Charitableway.com to Buy Charitygift; and List on Charity Business Ventures
By NICOLE WALLACE Charitableway.com (http://www.charitableway.com), a San Carlos, Calif., company that helps other companies put their employee-giving programs online, has signed an agreement to buy Charitygift (http://www.charitygift.com). Charitygift, which under the terms of the deal will…
Program Helps Charities Shape Technology Plans
Wired for Good is helping charities in the Silicon Valley develop sound technology plans. Non-profit groups go through a stringent application process to participate in the program, which is run by the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, in San Jose, Calif. Charities that are chosen for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Aids Access to Disability-Rights Exhibit
By NICOLE WALLACEThe National Museum of American History, in Washington, is using technology to make its new exhibit on the disability-rights movement accessible to people with disabilities. Located next to a powerful symbol of the civil-rights movement -- a section of the lunch counter from the…
Seattle Charity Sponsors Mobile Computer Lab
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Boys & Girls Club of King County is giving the Good Humor man a run for his money this summer. The organization, based in Seattle, is sending its Techmobile -- a mobile computer lab housed in a converted Winnebago -- out on the road to introduce children in the county’s poor…