Bush Transition Sparks Internet Campaign
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral progressive advocacy groups have launched a coordinated Internet campaign to voice their concerns about the Bush administration. For the first 100 days of the new administration, the TransitionWatch.org Web site and e-mail newsletter will feature news and action alerts from…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Group Seeks to Promote Online Giving
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization has been created to promote an environment in which contributors feel comfortable making gifts online. It also hopes to help charities use the Internet to strengthen their relationships with donors. As its first order of business, ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: The Community Collaborative Fund; Additions to TechSoup
By NICOLE WALLACE Verizon Communications has contributed the first $2.5-million of the $25-million it plans to give to the Community Collaborative Fund. The fund will award grants to California programs that bring information technology to the poor, as well as to members of minority groups and the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Domestic-Violence Victims Aided by Cell-Phone Drive
By NICOLE WALLACEThe wireless-telephone industry is deploying its products in the fight against domestic violence -- and asking the public to pitch in, too. Since 1996, the Call to Protect program has put 21,000 mobile phones in the hands of victims of domestic violence. The program is sponsored by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Technology Program Increases Grants to Charities
By NICOLE WALLACEThe U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program will award approximately $42.5-million in grants this year, up from $12.5-million in 2000. Started in 1994, the program awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to integrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Telecommunications Merger Leads to New Foundation
By NICOLE WALLACEThe day after America Online and Time Warner completed their merger, the new company announced that the AOL and Time Warner Foundations would be merging as well. The new AOL Time Warner Foundation will be based in New York and Dulles, Va. The fund will focus its giving in the areas…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
By NICOLE WALLACE The Benton Foundation has published a packet of resources, Public Media in the Digital Age, that discusses how communities are using public broadcasting, cable-access channels, and online community networks to strengthen education, social services, health care, and civic…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Financial Turbulence Hits Charity Sites
By NICOLE WALLACEInternet start-ups focusing on the nonprofit world have not been immune to the financial turbulence that has hit the high-tech industry. Two online giving portals have ceased operations. The founders of Shine, whose preview site went online in April, decided not to move forward…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Report on Attitudes Toward Teaching as a Profession
A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, by Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Tony Foleno, reports on attitudes about teaching as a profession among new teachers, superintendents and principals, and recent college graduates in other professions, as measured by three national telephone surveys. Of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Community Efforts to Address Alcohol-Related Problems
Case Histories in Alcohol Policy, edited by Joel Streicker, profiles seven grassroots advocacy groups that have taken on projects to combat alcohol-related problems--such as violence, injuries, and high crime rates--in their communities. The organizations were chosen to reflect activism in rural,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor