Bits: A Conference on Technology Assistance, Creating an Online Voter Guide, and Increasing Blood Donations

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

September 19, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups, will hold two regional conferences this fall. The group will meet October 31-November 1 in Chicago, and November 19-20 in Boston. For more information: Go to http://www.nten.org.
The California Voter Foundation has published “How to Make an Online Voter Guide: Quick Tips for the Voter Educator,” a manual that discusses how to create, operate, and publicize an online voter guide, and offers nonprofit organizations advice on how to ensure that the guide is nonpartisan. The Davis, Calif., organization promotes the use of the Internet for voter education, and has published the California Online Voter Guide for every statewide election since 1994. To get there: Go to http://www.calvoter.org/manual/quicktips.html.
The American Red Cross, in Washington, has teamed up with America Online, the Microsoft Corporation, and Yahoo to conduct an online campaign to raise awareness of the importance of giving blood. For more information: Go to http://blood.givelife.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.