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8 Charities Win Software Grants

November 1, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has awarded more than $7.6-million in software to eight nonprofit organizations through its Technology Leadership Grant program.

The largest grant, $2.7-million in software, was awarded to the National Urban League, in New York. The league currently operates 90 Digital Campus centers that provide technology access and training for children and adults, and the organization plans to use the award to expand its technology program to all 111 league affiliates.

Other grants, ranging in size from $210,109 to $1.25-million, were awarded to the American Farmland Trust, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Wildlife Federation, the Points of Light Foundation, the Student Conservation Association, and World Vision.

Applications for the 2002 Technology Leadership Grant program are due January 21.

For more information: Go to http://www.microsoft.com/giving or call (425) 706-8185.


About the Author

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.