Nonprofit Business Ventures Often Must Overcome Obstacles
New York Starting a nonprofit business venture isn’t easy -- even with $100,000 in seed capital ALSO SEE:Turning Music Into MoneyWinners of Yale Business-Plan Contest for Charities and expert consulting help. That was the message that the more than 460 participants heard at the second National…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Critical acclaim has yet to translate into commercial success for a charity’s for-profit record labelPittsburgh Shortly after the nonprofit Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild started its own for-profit record label, its ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Business Ventures Often Must Overcome ObstaclesWinners of Yale…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Web Marketing Association Accepting Entries for Nonprofit WebAwards
The Community Technology Centers’ Network plans to hold its annual conference in Seattle June 11-13. For more information: Go to http://www.ctcnet.org. The Nonprofit Risk Management Center has scheduled an online seminar on how to prevent fraud in nonprofit organizations for June 9 and an online…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Gay and Lesbian Groups Get Technology Help
A Los Angeles foundation is working to improve access to technology among gays and lesbians. The David Bohnett Foundation has announced that it plans to spend more than $350,000 this year to provide new technology equipment to gay and lesbian community centers the foundation has previously…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Gates Foundation Warns of Bogus E-Mails
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle, is warning nonprofit groups about e-mail scams that use the foundation’s name -- and the lure of big grants -- to try to swindle charities. The e-mail that prompted the foundation to issue the alert asked the charity that received it to put up money…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Conference Highlights Internet Tools and Spam Headaches
Philadelphia The Internet has transformed the way that political candidates raise money and mobilize supporters, and charities can draw some important lessons from those changes, Mike McCurry told 650 participants here at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. With technology, “you can ask people to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Debate Best Ways to Serve Society and Create New Sources of Revenue
San Francisco For significant social change to occur, charities and businesses need to become more each other, Gary Hirshberg, president of Stonyfield Farm, in Londonderry, N.H., and a former nonprofit executive, told more than 600 participants here at a conference on social enterprise. The meeting…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: GuideStar and Network for Good Conducting Survey on Diversity and Technology
A conference called “Grassroots Use of the Internet” will be held March 13 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meeting is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a group that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Applications Sought for 2004 Federal Grants
Approximately $12.9-million will be available for grants in the 2004 round of the Technology Opportunities Program. Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Commerce program has awarded grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments for innovative technology projects in education,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Benton Foundation Spins Off Technology Unit
The Benton Foundation, in Washington, is spinning off its technology-policy activities to renew its focus on promoting communications policies and programming that serve the public interest. The foundation’s Digital Divide Network -- including its popular Digitaldivide e-mail discussion list --…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor