Bits: GWU Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet Publishes Online Fundraising Guide

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

September 30, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is conducting a survey to learn how colleges and universities use e-mail to solicit donations. Institutions that participate will receive a free copy of the results. The deadline to complete the survey is September 30. To get there: Go to http://www.surveypro.com/TakeSurvey?id=17280.
The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, in San Francisco, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups, plans to hold regional technology conferences in Washington on October 14, in Chicago on October 19, in Boston on November 19, and in Phoenix on November 30. For more information: Go to http://www.nten.org.
George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet has published a guide to help political candidates and nonprofit organizations raise money and recruit volunteers online. Among the topics discussed: how to integrate online and offline fund-raising activities, and how to write effective e-mail appeals by understanding how they differ from direct-mail solicitations. To get there: Go to http://www.ipdi.org/UploadedFiles/of.pdf.

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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.