Researchers to Develop Medical Tools for Patients
By Nicole WallaceProject HealthDesign, a partnership between two foundations, has awarded $300,000 in research grants to encourage the development of new tools to help patients. The grants, which have been distributed to nine teams of researchers, will build on technology that has been devised by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet Delivers Advice to Victims of Date Violence
Break the Cycle, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, is trying to create a safe, welcoming place on the Internet where young people can find out about a difficult subject: date violence. The new Web site, TheSafeSpace.org, discusses the signs of an abusive relationship and steps to take to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: ‘Grassroots Use of Technology’ Conference To Be Held in June
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a workshop entitled, “Planning Your Online Legislative Affairs and Advocacy Campaign,” in Washington on April 3. Another workshop, “Engaging Online in a Presidential Election,” is scheduled for June 19. For more information: Go to http://webworkshops.info.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Foundation Revamps Grants Process
Switching from slides to electronic images has helped the New York Foundation for the Arts save money and improve its grant-making review process. The foundation awards grants of $7,000 apiece to roughly 120 visual, literary, or performing artists in New York annually. Until last year, visual…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Makes Web Video Accessible to More People
The migration of television programs, movies, and other video content to the Internet marks the newest challenge to a nonprofit organization that has worked for more than three decades to make broadcast media accessible to people with disabilities. Thirty-five years ago, WGBH, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: MobileActive Publishes Guide on Cell-Phone Advocacy
MobileActive, an Amherst, Mass., network of people who use cell phones to promote civic engagement, has published a guide on cell-phone advocacy. To get there: Go to http://www.mobileactive.org/guides. Charity Navigator has added to its Web site an interactive map of Africa that allows visitors to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Prize Honors Software Developers
A new award will honor a person or group whose work is making it easier for people to start using free and open-source software. The APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize will be awarded by the Association for Progressive Communications, an international network of organizations that use technology to promote…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Kintera Shakes Up Its Top Leadership
The upheaval in the fund-raising software industry continues with a leadership shake-up at Kintera, a San Diego company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit organizations. Kintera has named Richard N. LaBarbera as the company’s new president, and Alfred R. Berkeley III has been elected…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Washington-Area Donors Support Struggling Wisconsin Towns
Most of Gilbert D. and Jaylee M. Mead’s giving is in the arts. Just last year, the couple pledged $35-million to a Washington theater. But their love of ALSO SEE:DATABASE: America’s Most-Generous DonorsARTICLE: Record-Breaking GivingARTICLE: How The Chronicle’s Survey of Last Year’s Top Donors Was…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A pair of retired scientists indulge a love for theater with their philanthropy When Gilbert D. and Jaylee M. Mead first went to see shows at Arena Stage, a nonprofit theater in Washington, they were looking ALSO SEE: DATABASE: America’s Most-Generous Donors ARTICLE: Record-Breaking Giving ARTICLE:…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor