Foundation Uses Internet to Help Hunger Groups
Alan Shawn Feinstein says that he will donate $5 to anti-hunger groups for each person who visits his foundation’s Help the Hungry Web site by the end of the year, up to a total of $1-million. Since 1998 the Feinstein Foundation, in Cranston, R.I., has given away $1-million each year to anti-hunger…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Program Awards $12.4-Million
The Technology Opportunities Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded grants totaling $12.4-million to 25 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative projects that demonstrate how information technology can be put…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Using Radar Technology to Track Migratory Birds
The same doppler-radar technology that meteorologists use to forecast the weather is helping the Nature Conservancy, in Arlington, Va., identify where songbirds rest during their migratory flights, thus indicating where the group should focus its conservation efforts to preserve the birds’ habitat.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Links Donors and Teachers
A New York charity is using the Internet to carry out its motto: “Every teacher a grant writer, every citizen a philanthropist.” DonorsChoose’s Web site matches donors with public-school teachers who have innovative ideas for student projects that aren’t covered by school funds. Charles Best, a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups, will hold two regional conferences this fall. The group will meet October 31-November 1 in Chicago, and November 19-20 in Boston.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Patent Example of Competition
Kintera, a company in San Diego that leases software that helps nonprofit organizations raise money online, has submitted 13 patent applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The company says it is only trying to protect its intellectual property. But some in the nonprofit world…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest’s revamped Web site features a list of election-year dos and don’ts for nonprofit organizations, examples of successful nonprofit lobbying efforts, and a new service that allows visitors to e-mail their advocacy questions to the Washington organization’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
E-Mail Promotion Powers Bikeathon
Riders who sign up for the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a two-day charity bikeathon, agree to raise at least $1,000 for cancer care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston. This summer participants in the August ride got an electronic boost for their fund-raising efforts.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Resource for Disabled Students
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, a nonprofit organization in Princeton, N.J., hopes that its new digitally recorded textbooks will make reading assignments and research a little easier for students who have physical or learning disabilities. This week the organization will introduce its new…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Donations to United Ways at $3.95-Billion in 2001-2
The nation’s 1,813 United Ways raised $3.95-billion in their 2001-2 annual campaigns, a decline of 1.8 percent after adjusting for inflation. The figure excludes all but $30-million of the funds raised in connection with last September’s terrorist attacks. United Ways raised $40-million more than…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor