3 Charities Receive Technology Prizes
Three nonprofit organizations and two individuals were honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative use of technology to benefit society. The San Jose, Calif., museum received more than 460 nominations, representing 59 countries. Five panels of judges assembled by the Center for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Some Catholics Stop Gifts Due to Scandal, Poll Finds
The clergy sexual-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic church so far has had a limited effect on giving to the church. But that effect could grow significantly if donors find out that their gifts have been used to settle sexual-abuse lawsuits, according to a new report released by Foundations…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lay Catholics Increasingly Seek Influence Over How Gifts Are Used
Lay Catholics have responded to the clergy sexual-abuse scandal by pressing for greater influence ALSO SEE:Lifting Their VoicesBoston Archdiocese Seeks to Offset Fund-Raising Fallout in church decision making and by withholding their contributions to the church. Those actions, say scholars who…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Boston Archdiocese Seeks to Offset Fund-Raising Fallout
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, engulfed in controversy over how it handled allegations of sexual abuse ALSO SEE:Lifting Their VoicesLay Catholics Increasingly Seek Influence Over How Gifts Are Used by dozens of its priests, has revised some of its key fund-raising practices in an effort…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lay Catholics band together to gain clout after clergy scandalsNewton, Mass. Rocked by allegations of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, lay Catholics are banding together ALSO SEE:Boston Archdiocese Seeks to Offset Fund-Raising FalloutLay Catholics Increasingly Seek Influence Over…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Legal Guide on Internet Activities
A new book offers advice on how the laws and regulations that govern nonprofit organizations apply to charities’ activities on the Internet. The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law discusses such topics as Internet fund raising, online-donation acknowledgment, unrelated-business…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Archive Extends Access to Journals
A nonprofit organization in New York that was founded in 1995 to help college and university libraries deal with a space crunch in the stacks has expanded access to scholarly journals both in the United States and abroad. JSTOR, which got its start as a project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Manager for Dot-Org Domain
Come January a new organization will be managing the dot-org Internet domain that thousands of nonprofit organizations call home in cyberspace. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has selected the Internet Society, in Reston, Va., to succeed VeriSign as the domain’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: A Software Site Shuts Down; Popular Online Forum Is Revived; and iGive Gifts Top $1-Billion
The Nonprofit Software Index, a Web site that described software programs designed for charities, shut down last month “due to resource constraints.” The site had been maintained by William A. Kleintop, a professor at Seton Hall University. Marshall M. Burkes, Internet services administrator at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Source of Technology Help
Community technology centers, which originally were founded to provide technology access to people in low-income areas, have started to provide technology assistance to local nonprofit organizations, according to a new report published by the Community Technology Centers’ Network, in Cambridge,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor