Raising Money and Encouraging Donors’ Spiritual Development
Growing Givers’ Hearts: Treating Fundraising as Ministry
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Online Volunteerism Journal; AIDS Project Uses Excess Computational Power
By NICOLE WALLACE
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Promotes Accessible Web Sites
By NICOLE WALLACEThe founders of Knowbility, an Austin, Tex., charity that raises awareness about the potential for technology to improve the lives of people with disabilities, thought long and hard about what to name their organization. “We wanted something that could convey the idea that in the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Handicraft Groups Make Use of Internet
By NICOLE WALLACEFair-trade charities are taking different approaches to harnessing the power of the Internet to promote the sale of handicrafts made by artisans in developing countries. Daniel Salcedo envisions a future in which craftspeople use the Internet to sell their products directly to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Microsoft Gift Helps Youth Project
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Microsoft Corporation will donate $12.3-million in cash and $88-million in software to help Boys & Girls Clubs of America bring technology to each of its more than 2,600 clubs. The Club Tech program grew out of the success of an earlier project, in which Microsoft and Shaquille…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Profiles of End-of-Life Care Programs
Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies recounts the founding of nine end-of-life care programs designed to relieve the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and help families cope with their loved ones’ illnesses. Each of the narratives is written by the doctor, nurse, or…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Family Funds’ Grant Making in the Arts
Creative Family Giving in the Arts, by Laurel Jones and Morrie Warshawski, profiles grant making in the arts by 18 family foundations and family giving groups. Unlike many larger private grant makers, a number of those funds award grants to individual artists. This book is part of the series…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups
By NICOLE WALLACE Among the seven new top-level Internet domain names recommended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was dot-museum. (Top-level domain names are the last part of an Internet address, such as dot-com or dot-org, that indicate what type of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Corporate Citizenship Detailed Online
By NICOLE WALLACEInvestors who want to know if the companies in which they own stock are good corporate citizens can turn to a new online resource. The Corporate Social Research Center rates 1,000 companies on their commitment to fair labor practices, the environment, product quality and safety,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Sports and Computers Help Detroit Youngsters
By NICOLE WALLACEThink Detroit combines balls and bats with bits and bytes to offer educational and athletic opportunities to the city’s children. This year more than 1,400 children from ages 5 to 14 competed in baseball, basketball, soccer, and softball leagues organized by the Detroit charity.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor