Museum Sites Feature Art Possibly Looted by Nazis
Museums across the country -- and around the world -- are using the Internet to post information about artworks in their collections that have incomplete ownership records for the years 1933 to 1945 and may have been looted by the Nazis. In June 1998, the Association of Art Museum Directors adopted…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Conference Highlights to be Posted Online; E-Mail List for Activists
* Highlights from the Council on Foundations’ annual conference, which takes place May 1-3 in Los Angeles, will be posted on the council’s Web site during the meeting. Some of the highlights will be available as sound and video files. To get there: Go to http://www.cof.org/simulconference/ac2000. *…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Virtual’ Volunteers Subject of New Guide
A new guide is available for charities that want to add a “virtual” component to their volunteer program. The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: How to Apply the Principles of Real-World Volunteer Management to Online Service, a 133-page book available free online, explains how to recruit, manage, and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Group Raises Money for Business Loans to Women
Count Me In is a new Internet-based organization that raises money to make small-business loans to women. After raising almost $1-million -- from such grant makers as the American Express Foundation, BP Amoco, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, and the Friedman Family Fund -- for its start-up…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Effort to Promote Use of Film to Aid Social Causes
A new online effort is trying to use film and video to promote awareness of social problems -- and the charities working to alleviate them. The Visionaries, a non-profit group in Braintree, Mass., has started an Internet channel to broadcast its own stories about non-profit organizations and to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Grants Seek to Encourage Charity Innovation on the Web
* The Ericsson Internet Community Awards will offer five prizes worth up to $100,000 each in Web development services for innovative non-profit Internet ideas. The competition is accepting applications from non-profit organizations around the world through July 17. Ericsson will also sponsor online…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
U.S. Technology Aides Assist Overseas Programs
The Global Technology Corps brings together technologically savvy volunteers and corporate contributions to tackle technology projects overseas. A program of the State Department, the corps began operating a year ago. Its first project was to set up Internet access in refugee camps in six countries…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet Resources Surveyed in New Report
Online resources for non-profit organizations are the subject of a new report. “E-Philanthropy, Volunteerism, and Social Changemaking: A New Landscape of Resources, Issues, and Opportunities,” published online by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Mich., provides summaries of and links…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Links Users to Arctic Protest
Greenpeace USA is using its Web site to link people on the Internet with a remote group of activists protesting oil exploration in the Arctic -- and to encourage visitors to the site to join the fight. A small group of Greenpeace activists has set up camp on the frozen Arctic Ocean to protest BP…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Search Engine Focuses on Grant Makers’ Sites
The Foundation Center’s Web site now features a specialized search engine that allows visitors to search the Web sites of more than 1,000 grant makers. Users of the “Grantmaker Web Search” can select which types of grant makers -- private and community foundations, corporate grant makers, or…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor