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NICOLE WALLACE

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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.

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Advocacy

Open Your Tent for Supporters Wide, Says Leader of Progressive Group

Groundswell Fund’s Vanessa Daniel believes donors will respond when reproductive rights are linked with other progressive issues.

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A First-Generation College Grad Helps Others Get Their Degrees

Dartmouth alumna Alexandra Bernadotte builds support networks for students who might struggle with academics or campus life.

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Pressing Foundations to Fight Opioid Abuse

Claire Fiddian-Green of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is rallying fellow grant makers to tackle the epidemic.

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How One Group Crafts Data-Smart Solutions on Land Use

Ray Rasker and Headwaters Economics are finding answers on issues that often polarize communities.

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Ending Poverty, One Family at a Time

Heather Reynolds and Catholic Charities Fort Worth have built an innovative approach that’s showing solid results.

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Leader Moving From a Small Charity to a Big Foundation Finds a New Voice

Taking over the Denver Foundation after leading a small nonprofit, Christine Marquez-Hudson had to change her style.

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Building Bridges Across Faiths

Raised by a Muslim father and Methodist mother, Aziza Hasan now helps people of Jewish and Islamic faith find common ground.

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A Very Personal Fight on Mental Health

Matt Kuntz of the National Alliance on Mental Illness talks openly about how depression almost led him to take his life.

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After 16 Years in Prison, a Massachusetts Man Helps Others Rebuild

Many of the kids who come to YouthBuild have a criminal record. CEO John Valverde can relate.

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Winning the Fight to Bring Justice to the Jailhouse

Alec Karakatsanis has filed a barrage of lawsuits to reform a cash-bail system he says discriminates against the poor. And he’s winning.

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