Environmental Groups Compete for Money

May 2, 2010

Earth Day marked the start of another social-giving contest, the eBay Fundraising Tournament for the Environment. The event is open to any nonprofit organization that focuses on environmental issues.

Participating groups are reaching out to their supporters to encourage them to vote for the charity to receive a share of the tournament prize money, the first $50,000 of which has been donated by eBay.

The competition will run through June 22. The 30 nonprofit groups that receive the most votes will share the prize money.

For more information: Go to http://humanitycalls.org.

About the Author

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.