Bits: Grants Seek to Encourage Charity Innovation on the Web

April 6, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The Ericsson Internet Community Awards will offer five prizes worth up to $100,000 each in Web development services for innovative non-profit Internet ideas. The competition is accepting applications from non-profit organizations around the world through July 17. Ericsson will also sponsor online video seminars on topics such as Internet fund raising. For more information: Go to http://www.ericsson.com/erica.

* The Progressive Technology Project is accepting proposals from advocacy groups for two grant programs through May 5. The Grants Pool will award 12 to 15 grants of up to $10,000 each to help groups use technology to support their advocacy efforts. The Strategic Use Fund will award four to six grants of up to $25,000 each for projects that have the potential to serve as a model for other groups. For more information: Go to http://www.progressivetech.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.