Advice on Direct-Mail Fund Raising
Direct Response Fund Raising: Mastering New Trends for Results
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Building a Strong Board Is a Continual Process, Authors Assert
The Board Building Cycle: Nine Steps to Finding, Recruiting, and Engaging Nonprofit Board Members
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Program Helps Charities Shape Technology Plans
Wired for Good is helping charities in the Silicon Valley develop sound technology plans. Non-profit groups go through a stringent application process to participate in the program, which is run by the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, in San Jose, Calif. Charities that are chosen for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Help With Donor Files Offered to Charities
The Indianapolis software company eTapestry is offering its Web-based fund-raising software free to charities that have fewer than 1,000 donor records. The service -- which starts at $99 per month for groups with more than 1,000 donor records -- allows charities to maintain information about their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Donors who plan to sponsor a rider in the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride can now make their contributions online. Next month more than 1,200 volunteers will ride their bicycles 510 miles between Fairbanks and Anchorage to raise money for research toward an AIDS vaccine. Each rider is responsible for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Second Harvest Wins $7-Million in Aid
America’s Second Harvest has received a multimillion-dollar grant to improve its technology infrastructure. Over the next three years, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, in Las Vegas, will give the network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs $7-million for its Enterprise Project.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Public-Interest Group Blends Cable, Internet
Downtown Community Television Center, a community-media organization in New York, has built a television studio that is designed to broadcast live, interactive television programs simultaneously on cable and the Internet. Staff members from DCTV, as the center is known, taught a group of teenagers…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Alliances Focus on Charities
Technology companies that provide services to the non-profit world have made several major announcements:. * A coalition of companies announced that they intend to release an open-language standard called the Open Philanthropy eXchange, or OPX, later this month. The companies believe that using a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: ‘Abe’s Grant Report’ and Non-Profit Case Studies Available Online
* Frustrated that he was finding out about grant opportunities published in the Federal Register too late to allow him to prepare good proposals, Abraham J. Perlstein created Abe’s Grant Report. The Brooklyn, N.Y., lawyer’s free daily e-mail newsletter summarizes grant opportunities listed in the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Virginia Fund’s ‘Virtual Field Trip’ to a Progressive Brazilian City
The sights and sounds of Curitiba, Brazil -- and information about the city’s innovative urban-planning policies -- are featured on a new Web site. Faced with increasing urban sprawl in the 1960’s, Curitiba adopted policies to encourage growth along public-transportation corridors. Today, 75…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor