Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, in North Carolina, thinks that the computer is an essential appliance for the 21st-century home, not unlike a refrigerator or washing machine, and it has begun a $1-million project that by the end of the year will put a computer in every home the organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bringing Technology to the Global Village
The Hewlett-Packard Company, in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., have announced that they will earmark at least 20 percent of their philanthropy budgets for technology projects in developing countries. The companies made their pledges as they signed on to the CEO…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Try Rented E-Mail Lists
In the early days of the Internet, many nonprofit organizations thought, or at least hoped, that if ALSO SEE:Forging Links OnlineOnline Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringOnline Charitable Giving Tops $96-MillionCharity Web Sites Spur Offline Gifts they built Web sites that could…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Web Sites Spur Offline Gifts
As charities see their online fund-raising totals rise and they experiment with new ways to spur electronic ALSO SEE:Forging Links OnlineOnline Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringOnline Charitable Giving Tops $96-MillionCharities Try Rented E-Mail Lists giving, they are also…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities test new approaches to wooing donors on the InternetHeifer International, a charity in Little Rock, Ark., that gives livestock to needy families in developing ALSO SEE:Online Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringOnline Charitable Giving Tops $96-MillionCharity Web Sites…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Free Data for Nonprofit Groups; and a Conference on Using the Internet
The National Priorities Project, a nonprofit organization in Northampton, Mass., has added a feature to its Web site that allows visitors to create tables and charts using data on social needs, demographics, and government spending collected by federal agencies. To get there: Go to http://data…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Approach to Linking Corporations, Charities
Nonprofit organizations that are looking for corporate sponsors for their events and companies that are looking for events to support now have a place to find each other online. The new site, IEG SponsorDirect, lists sponsorship opportunities and allows companies to browse them at no charge. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Site Allows Sharing of Technology Curriculums
A new Web site allows charities to share their technology-training materials online. Created by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that provides management and technology assistance to other charities, the site offers training curriculums on software…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: An Online–Fund Raising Survey, and a Conference for Grass-Roots Groups
The AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy and ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org are conducting an online survey that asks charities about their online fund raising. The results of the survey are scheduled to be included in Giving USA, an annual report on the state of philanthropy that the trust expects to issue…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site to Aid International Projects
A new company founded by two former World Bank officials is working to create an online marketplace where people with an idea for an international-development project can promote their work and donors can contribute to the projects directly. Among the 113 projects listed on the Washington company’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor