Federal Technology Program Awards $14.4-Million
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program has awarded grants totaling $14.4-million to 27 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative technology projects in education, health care, economic development,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Webby Awards Includes Best Charitable-Organization Web Site Category
The 2005 Webby Awards competition will include a new category for best charitable-organization Web site. The fee to submit an entry for consideration is $95, and the deadline is December 17. For more information: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com. On October 26, the Philanthropic Initiative, a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Ranks Cities by Charity Efficiency
Charity Navigator, a watchdog group in Mahwah, N.J., has added an interactive, online chart to its Web site that allows users to see how 25 major cities stack up in 16 measures of nonprofit performance. Charity Navigator looked at financial data from 1,500 nonprofit groups, as reported on their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Database Assists Myeloma Research
The Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium is using a powerful shared database to link four leading medical-research centers to try to accelerate the development of drugs to treat the disease. A cancer of the plasma cell, multiple myeloma has no known cure. In 1998, after she was diagnosed with the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spam Filters Snag Charity Messages, Study Finds
A new study of 40 nonprofit organizations found that at least one in five e-mail messages sent over seven months was misclassified as spam. Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, a company in Washington, used five accounts to subscribe to e-mail lists maintained by 40 nonprofit organizations. The company…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Efforts to Overhaul Operations Examined
Although most charities agree on the importance of spending time and money on technology upgrades, long-term planning, and other efforts to help an organization run more efficiently, “donors and boards often underestimate the need for capacity building during hard times,” writes Paul Light, a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: GWU Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet Publishes Online Fundraising Guide
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is conducting a survey to learn how colleges and universities use e-mail to solicit donations. Institutions that participate will receive a free copy of the results. The deadline to complete the survey is September 30. To get there: Go to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Offers Vast Radio-Program Collection
After its first year, the nonprofit PRX Public Radio Exchange has received a clear signal that its idea of linking radio programs with stations in search of content is working. Some 1,000 digital radio stories have been licensed through the site for broadcast on public radio stations. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Groups Offer New Technology Tools
Two charities that help small to medium-size nonprofit organizations raise money online plan to expand the array of services they offer. Groundspring.org, a San Francisco organization that provides charities with tools that allow them to communicate with their supporters via e-mail and accept…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Investors are pouring new money and ideas into fund-raising softwareIn the 1990s, many venture capitalists believed that they could make plenty of money by investing in companies ALSO SEE: A Drive to Unleash the Internet’s Power Fund Raising Software: a Sampling of the Best-Financed Providers that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor