Bits: Practac Promotes Discussion Between Non-Profit Professionals and Scholars

August 12, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* Board Café, the free monthly electronic newsletter for non-profit board members, has a new co-publisher. The National Center for Nonprofit Boards, in Washington, will be joining the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, in San Francisco, in producing the publication. To subscribe: Go to http://www.supportcenter.org/cafe or fax a request to (415) 541-7708.

* A new e-mail list, Practac, promotes discussion between non-profit professionals and scholars who study philanthropy. The list is run by American Philanthropy Review, a company in Rancho Santa Margarita, Cal., that sponsors e-mail discussion lists and sells non-profit publications. To subscribe: Go to http://charitychannel.com/Forums or send an e-mail message to Listserv@CharityChannel.com. In the body of the message, type the words: subscribe practac Your Name.

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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.