Donations to Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina Surpass $580-Million
Americans have contributed at least $587-million to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The pace of giving is ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina unprecedented in American history. In the 10 days after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Americans donated $239-million to charitable causes, and in the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Gulf Coast charities face double challenge of helping displaced victims while assessing their own losses When Diane Easley fled Ocean Springs, Miss., to escape Hurricane Katrina, she grabbed pictures of her children ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina and the most important financial records…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Democracy Collaborative Launches Community-Wealth.org
Community-Wealth.org, a new Web site created by the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, provides news, articles, and other information about economic-development organizations, financial institutions that specialize in neighborhood development, local land trusts, cooperatives,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site for Donors Receives Big Grants
A Washington organization that uses the Internet to match American donors with grass-roots social and economic-development projects in the developing world has received two large grants to expand its operations. GlobalGiving has received $1.5-million from the Omidyar Network, the philanthropy in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New York Charity Seeks to Spur Community Debate
The Community Service Society, a New York advocacy group, is starting a new Web site, Turnstile, which it hopes will bring together community activists, policy advocates, and members of the public to debate important social and economic issues facing the city. Each week Turnstile -- which is…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Group Plans Meeting on Relief Aid
The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network in San Francisco, plans to hold five regional conferences this fall and co-sponsor a conference on the role of technology in humanitarian relief. The network is a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Access to Computers Remains Uneven
The benefits that information technology offer to young people are undermined by continuing disparities in children’s access to computers and the Internet based on their race and ethnicity, as well as their family’s income, according to a new report by a children’s advocacy organization. Yet when…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Television Station Asks Donors to Support Film
At a time when a growing number of public-television viewers are making their membership gifts online, WGBH, a Boston station, is turning to the Internet to raise money for a specific production -- a documentary on the role of adoption in American society. The Boston station has already received…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit group’s repair shop anticipates brisk salesWest St. Paul, Minn. At first glance, nothing seems out of the ordinary about the garage. But when Gary Dalton starts talking about his work -- describing ALSO SEE:High Fuel Costs Prompt Minn. United Way to Help Charities Save on Gas himself as a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Libraries Unable to Meet Internet Use Demand
GuideStar, a Williamsburg, Va., organization that posts charities’ informational tax returns on the Internet, has started a new service, eDocs, that allows nonprofit groups to post additional documents to the site, such as their audited financial statements, annual reports, and letters from the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor