Google Offers $5-Million in Contest

March 23, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute

Google plans to award $500,000 grants to four nonprofits and smaller amounts to the runners-up for creative projects that help tackle tough problems in the San Francisco Bay Area. The technology giant is asking the public to help pick the winners.

Charities can submit applications through March 31.

A six-person panel of judges will select 10 finalists, which will be announced May 22. The four organizations that receive the most votes up to June 2 will each receive $500,000 and assistance from Google and access to shared work space. The other six finalists will receive $250,000 each, and 15 runners-up will each receive $100,000.

For more information: Go to impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/bayarea2014.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.