Bits: An Online News Service, an Internet Sing-Along, and a Group for Charity Web Masters
* The A.J. Fletcher Foundation, in Raleigh, N.C., has started a new Web site, Nonprofitxpress, which provides news about fund raising, non-profit management, giving, and volunteerism. The site, which also includes a section on non-profit news in North Carolina, is edited by Todd Cohen, who founded…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Content Seen as Key to ‘Digital Divide’
A new report identifies an element of the “digital divide” that few have paid attention to -- the lack of information on the Internet that is useful to people who are poor, live in rural areas, or are members of minority groups. Published by the Children’s Partnership, a public-policy organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Hunger Site’s Success Inspires Imitators
The remarkable success of the Hunger Site has inspired a wave of similar “click-and-donate” Web sites for other causes. Every time a visitor goes to the Hunger Site (http://www.thehungersite.com) and clicks on “donate free food,” the site’s corporate advertisers each donate half a cent to the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Fellowships for Technology Writers; E-mail Greetings Benefit Charities
* The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, in New York, has committed $845,000 over the next two years to a new fellowship program to support writers who are examining the effects of information technology on society. The Markle Fellows program is part of a fellowship program run by the New America…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site to Peddle Works of Older Craftspeople
Geezer.com is a new Web site that helps older craftspeople sell their wares online -- even if they don’t have access to the Internet. The site -- which will feature a wide variety of items such as pottery, wooden toys, hand-tied fishing lures, and baskets -- is a project of Green Thumb, a charity…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Company Gives Equipment, Training to Chicago Charities
The petroleum company BP Amoco will donate more than $500,000 in computer hardware and software and $250,000 in technology services and training to more than 100 non-profit organizations in Chicago. The company’s “Nonprofit Technology Advancement Initiative” kicks off with a conference on March 24…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Civil-Rights Groups Get Help With Technology
The technology efforts of civil-rights organizations will soon get a lift from a new coalition of grant makers and companies. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund, in Washington, and the AOL Foundation, in Dulles, Va., have formed the Digital…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Shopping Malls: a User Guide
A new report helps non-profit organizations shop for an online charity shopping site. Allison Schwein, a non-profit consultant in Sunnyvale, Calif., has published on her Web site a report, “Charity Shopping Portals,” that lists and compares more than 20 online shopping sites that allow shoppers to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Netaid Awards $1.7-Million for Projects in Africa, Kosovo
The Netaid.org Foundation awarded $1.7-million in grants to 13 non-profit organizations working to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions in Africa and Kosovo. Netaid.org is a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and Cisco Systems to use the Internet to raise public…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
March of Dimes Drive Moves From Letters to E-Mail
A 50-year-old fund-raising tradition is going online. The March of Dimes Mothers March started out in 1950 as a campaign in which volunteers went door-to-door asking their neighbors to contribute to the group’s efforts to find a cure for polio; eventually it evolved into a neighborhood…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor