Technology Bits: Microsoft To Increase Charitable Giving

July 29, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., plans to increase its charitable giving by $25-million over the next five years, using money it won in lawsuits against companies that sell pirated copies of its software programs. The funds will be awarded to charities that provide the poor with access to technology and to educational institutions that promote excellence in science and technology. Over the next year, Microsoft expects to make cash grants totaling $33.5-million, including $3.5-million from the settlements.

* Family Service of Greater Boston has created an e-mail list for non-profit managers in the Boston area to discuss the information-technology challenges faced by social-service organizations. TO SUBSCRIBE: Send a blank e-mail message to IS.forum-subscribe@listbot.com.

About the Author

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.