Fund Raisers Seek to Keep Personal Touch in Online Drives
An increasing number of corporations are turning to online-pledge systems as an inexpensive and efficient way to ALSO SEE:On-the-Job Goes OnlineUnited Way of America CEO Urges Changes at D.C. Unit run their employee charity drives. But fund raisers at United Ways and other charities worry that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
United Ways seek to capitalize on success of electronic drivesElectronic giving, long touted as a revolutionary way to make soliciting and processing on-the-job donations easier, ALSO SEE:Fund Raisers Seek to Keep Personal Touch in Online DrivesUnited Way of America CEO Urges Changes at D.C. Unit…
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Features Editor
Bits: Grants Aid Technology Projects, Fund-Raising Tips for Groups That Help Animals
The United Negro College Fund, in Fairfax, Va., has received $25-million worth of software from the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash. This gift brings the total that the fund has raised for its Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign (The Chronicle, April 4) to $118.9-million in cash,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Group Starts Site to Aid Poor
Two years ago the Children’s Partnership, a public-policy organization in Santa Monica, Calif., released research findings that identified a lack of useful information on the Internet for people who are poor or are members of minority groups, have limited literacy skills, or do not speak English.…
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Features Editor
Lighthearted E-Mail Drive Raises $80,000
Grist Magazine describes its environmental coverage as “gloom and doom with a sense of humor” -- an irreverent approach that the online publication successfully applied to its first e-mail fund-raising campaign. Based in Seattle, Grist publishes a daily e-mail digest that summarizes the day’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Donation Site Helps U.K. Charities
A new giving site allows donors in the United Kingdom to make online contributions to any charity in the country -- regardless of whether those groups have an Internet presence of their own. GiveNow.org is a joint project of the Charities Aid Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Kent, England,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Groups Shine in Web-Site Honors
Nonprofit organizations made their mark at the 2002 Webby Awards by taking top honors in eight categories. Given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an association for online-communication professionals, the Webbys honor Internet sites in 30 categories, such as activism,…
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Features Editor
Microsoft Gives Software to 5 Groups
The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has awarded more than $3.3-million in software to five nonprofit organizations through its Technology Leadership Grant program. The largest grant, $2-million in software, was awarded to Special Olympics, in Washington, D.C. The organization plans to use…
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Features Editor
Hard Times Force Some Organizations to Scale Back on Technology Plans
Just when nonprofit groups are finally having an easier time competing with for-profit companies for ALSO SEE:The Tide Turns highly skilled technology employees -- thanks to the collapse of the dot-com boom -- economic uncertainty is leading some charities to scale back or postpone their planned…
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Features Editor
Decision makers do not all agree on the best way for constituents to contact them, says a new report published by the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, in Washington. For e-mail activism networks to be effective, nonprofit organizations need to learn what form of communication officials…
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Features Editor