Bits: ‘Grassroots Use of Technology’ Conference To Be Held in June

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

March 8, 2007

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a workshop entitled, “Planning Your Online Legislative Affairs and Advocacy Campaign,” in Washington on April 3. Another workshop, “Engaging Online in a Presidential Election,” is scheduled for June 19. For more information: Go to http://webworkshops.info.
The eighth annual “Grassroots Use of Technology” conference will be held June 22-23 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The meeting is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a group that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go to http://www.organizerscollaborative.org.

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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.