Web Site Helps Participants Get Jump on Conference
Organizers of this month’s National Community Service Conference are using Internet technology to encourage interaction among participants long before they get to the Orlando meeting -- and to help those who cannot attend. Approximately 5,000 people are expected at the meeting, which is being…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New York Group Offers Online Advocacy Tool
Residents of New York City now have a quick and easy way to find out who their representatives are at all levels of government and how to contact them. When visitors to the Who Represents Me? Web site enter their street addresses and zip codes, the site returns a list of the public officials who…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Software for Conducting Health Studies; Internet-Training Curriculum
* The Population Council, a non-profit organization in New York, has made available free on its Web site the Household Registration System, software designed to help researchers conduct long-term demographic and public-health studies in developing countries. The council’s site offers a manual and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Endowment Gives Leads to Other Sources of Funds
The National Endowment for the Arts has created a Web site to show that it isn’t the only game in town when it comes to federal support for the arts. The site, called Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities, describes and provides links to grant programs in 23 federal agencies that have provided…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Volunteer-Matching Program Still Extending Its Reach
In the last three months of 1999, VolunteerMatch put more than 55,000 potential volunteers in touch with non-profit organizations that needed assistance, almost doubling the number of matches it had made in the first 18 months it was online. Five months into 2000, the total number of matches made…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Health-Care Policy Making to Be Broadcast on the Web
By NICOLE WALLACEBeginning this fall, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation will broadcast health-policy events -- such as Congressional hearings, meetings, and press conferences -- free on the Internet. The Menlo Park, Calif., foundation will send subscribers to its HealthCast service a weekly…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Best Buddies Moves Volunteers Online
By NICOLE WALLACEBest Buddies is bringing its friendship-matching program online to help mentally retarded people learn to use computers. Since February, the organization’s e-Buddies program has matched 100 retarded people with non-disabled volunteers, who agree to write to their buddies at least…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Expertise for Non-Techies
By NICOLE WALLACEA new Web site, TechSoup, is designed to help non-profit professionals find answers to their technology questions -- whether they are technology experts or not. TechSoup is a project of CompuMentor, a San Francisco charity that provides technology assistance to non-profit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Charity Looks Beyond Getting Schools Wired
Netday, which has led a nationwide volunteer effort to wire elementary and secondary schools for the Internet, is refocusing its energies on bridging the digital divide and helping teachers use technology in their classrooms. As part of an assessment of its mission last fall, the Irvine, Calif.,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Campaign Promotes Safe Childbirth in Rwanda
An online campaign developed by the editors of Time magazine is raising money to create safer, more-sanitary conditions for women giving birth in Rwanda. Time started the Mother and Baby Survival Project -- administered by NetAid.org, the International Rescue Committee, and the Rwandan Ministry of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor