Bits: New Non-Profit E-Mail Lists

July 15, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* Two new e-mail forums discuss how to use the Internet to raise money. The Gilbert Center, a Seattle organization that provides technology help to charities, has started Online Fundraising. TO SUBSCRIBE: Send an e-mail message to autoshare@gilbert.org. In the body of the message, type the words: sub fundraising. American Philanthropy Review, a company in Rancho Santa Margarita, Cal., that sponsors e-mail discussion lists and sells non-profit publications, will be running Cybergifts. 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 cybergifts Your Name.

* American Philanthropy Review has also created a new e-mail announcement list, Charitywire, that allows non-profit organizations and companies that deal with charities to post news releases that would be of interest to the press or to other non-profit groups. American Philanthropy Review said it will monitor the releases to be sure nothing inappropriate is posted. 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 charitywire Your Name.

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.