NICOLE WALLACE, Author at COP Staging

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.

Advocacy

Nonprofit Leader Shares Her Life Story to Promote Jobs for Youths

Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith works to make sure low-income high-school students, many of them minorities, get opportunities like the one she had.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Advocacy

Surdna and Andrus Award Grants to Build Next Generation of Social-Justice Philanthropy

Twenty-one nonprofits will receive grants to build donor networks that share ideas about how to promote racial and class equity.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Advocacy

Nonprofit Uses Creative Impact Investing to Stem Foreclosures

New Jersey Community Capital buys pools of troubled mortgages at a discount and then modifies the loans to help homeowners. Vacant properties or converted to affordable housing.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Advocacy

Financial Stress a Constant for Social-Service Groups, Says New Report

One in eight is technically insolvent at a time when services are needed more than ever due to an aging population, government cutbacks, and the opioid crisis, among other factors.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Advocacy

A Matter of Degree: Helping Young Moms Succeed

Bard Microcollege Holyoke is designed to tackle the challenges that keep nontraditional students with children from finishing their degrees.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Fundraising

A Venture Capitalist Uses Philanthropy to Reimagine Education

Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist, wants schools to better prepare American students for the innovation economy.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Leadership

When School Becomes a Refuge

Raised homeless and without his parents, the Nord Family Foundation’s Anthony Richardson is focused on education in Ohio.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

Advocacy

On the Rise: Young Professionals Shaking Up the Nonprofit World

Meet a fundraiser who brought in $40 million for a new museum, a former Obama administration official heading up a health foundation, a Native American activist who builds bridges with grant makers, and other rising stars in philanthropy.

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor