Bits: Blackbaud Acquires Campagne Associates

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

February 9, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

Blackbaud, a company in Charleston, S.C., that makes fund-raising and accounting software for nonprofit organizations, has acquired Campagne Associates, a fund-raising software company in Manchester, N.H., in a $6-million cash deal. Blackbaud says it will continue to provide support for Campagne’s GiftMaker Pro software for at least two years. For more information: Go to http://www.blackbaud.com.
The Social Science Research Council, in New York, has published a new report, “Civil Technologies: The Values of Nonprofit ICT Use,” which profiles 11 nonprofit organizations around the world that have successfully integrated technology into their work. It also discusses the challenges charities face as they adopt information technology. Among the organizations profiled: eHomemakers.net, a Malaysian project to provide support to women running businesses from their homes. To get a copy of the report: Go to http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic.
CompuMentor, a San Francisco technology group, is holding free workshops on computer security for charities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in February and March. For more information: Go to http://www.compumentor.org/pcf.

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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.