Bits: The Hunger Site Expands Its Efforts; Online Information for Donors
By NICOLE WALLACE The Hunger Site, a popular Web site where corporate sponsors make a gift every time a visitor clicks on the site’s “Donate free food” button (The Chronicle, February 24), is expanding the reach of its hunger-relief efforts. The site, which since its creation in June 1999 has…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Provides Data on Services for Disabled
A new Web site, TheArcLink.org, offers a database of organizations that provide services to mentally retarded people in Indiana and New Mexico -- and has the ambitious goal of eventually listing service providers across the country. The site is a joint project of The Arc of the United States and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
CD-ROM Helps Charities Assess Risks
By NICOLE WALLACEA new CD-ROM helps charities evaluate whether they are taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves from lawsuits, accidents, and other hazards. The Nonprofit Risk Management Center, in Washington, created the Nonprofit Computer Assisted Risk Evaluation System, or…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Activists Use E-Mail to Combat Torture
By NICOLE WALLACEAmnesty International USA last month activated its new Internet advocacy network by asking members to send e-mail appeals to Turkish authorities on behalf of Sehmuz Temel. Mr. Temel is a Kurd who was being held at police headquarters in Istanbul and had been severely tortured…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Awards Honor Charities for Technology Ideas
By NICOLE WALLACEUsing technology to overcome isolation -- both social and geographic -- is a common element in many of the project proposals that won Ericsson Internet Community Awards. Ericsson, a Stockholm telecommunications company, honored five nonprofit organizations from around the world for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Report on an Arts-Marketing Program in Charlotte, North Carolina
Marketing the Arts: Lessons from a Community Marketing Collaboration reports on the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s five-year program to help four struggling performing-arts organizations in Charlotte, N.C., improve their marketing efforts. In 1994, the foundation awarded a grant to the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Case Study of a Foundation’s Closure
Closing a Foundation: The Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, by John H. Dickason and Duncan Neuhauser, details how the Miami fund, as specified in Mrs. Markey’s will, closed out its activities after 15 years of grant making. The authors also examine the debate over whether it is better to create…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Technology Program Awards $13.9-Million
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Technology Opportunity Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded $13.9-million to 35 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments for projects that bring information technology to poor urban and rural areas. Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Use Internet to Educate Voters
By NICOLE WALLACEAs the Internet changes the way politicians run for office, it is also influencing the way nonprofit organizations conduct their voter-education and advocacy activities. Web White & Blue (http://www.webwhiteblue.org), a project of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, in New…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Advice for Charities on Using the Internet to Generate Revenue
The Nonprofit Organization’s Guide to E-Commerce
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor