Environmental Groups Offered Internet Tools
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization is building Internet-based tools to help environmental organizations work together to improve their communications efforts. Green Media Toolshed, in Washington, provides its members with a directory of more than 230,000 press contacts in the United States and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Online Option for United Ways
By NICOLE WALLACEA consortium of local United Ways has entered the electronic workplace-giving fray. For the forthcoming fall campaign season, participating United Ways will be able to use the United eWay.org system to work with companies to design customized Web sites that employees can use to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Advocates Put the Web to Work
By NICOLE WALLACEFor several years charities have been using the Internet in their advocacy work on causes like the environment and human rights. Now a coalition of organizations is harnessing the power of the Internet on behalf of policy issues that affect the nonprofit world. A project of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
By NICOLE WALLACEPeninsula Habitat for Humanity is looking to provide low-income families with homes on the information superhighway. Working with Cisco Systems, the Menlo Park, Calif., chapter of Habitat for Humanity is wiring 36 town houses it is building in Redwood City for high-speed access to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Companies Merge Operations
By NICOLE WALLACEThe consolidation of companies that specialize in helping charities use the Internet is continuing. In recent months, a number of online-giving companies have gone out of business -- most notably Charitableway -- and several giving portals, including CharityCounts and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Software-Donation Program; Virus Vaccination Day
By NICOLE WALLACE The Microsoft Corporation will be accepting applications for its Technology Leadership Grant program through April 2. Since 1997, the program has awarded Microsoft software to help large nonprofit groups improve their communications and operations and to use the Internet to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spontaneous Campaign Reaps Charity Windfall
By NICOLE WALLACEPropelled by the Internet, a spontaneous fund-raising campaign raised more than $600,000 for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates. In the January 26 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the columnist Patt Morrison wrote that she planned to celebrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online-Giving Company to Cease Operations
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway -- one of the best-known and best-financed of the recent e-philanthropy ventures -- has announced that it is shutting down operations. ALSO SEE:The E-Philanthropy Revolution Is Here to StayFROM THE ARCHIVES:Internet Entrepreneur Tries to Bring Employee Giving On Line…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities find new ways to let people do good works onlineCharities and the people they serve are benefiting from a new wave of volunteers, many of whom they will never see. The Internet ALSO SEE:Online Volunteers: Sources of Information increasingly is giving people like Latasha Greer -- a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$13-Million Raised in On-the-Job Drives
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway, a company in San Carlos, Calif., managed 12 electronic on-the-job giving campaigns this fall that brought in a total of more than $13-million for charity. The campaigns -- administered for companies such as Agilent Technologies, the Hewlett-Packard Company, Morgan…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor