Site to Fight Hunger Gets a New Owner
GreaterGood.com has purchased the Hunger Site, a popular Web site where corporate sponsors make a donation to the United Nations World Food Programme every time a visitor clicks on the site’s “Donate free food” button. Since its founding in June, almost 34 million people have visited the site,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Web Site Offers Help With Letters to Editor
The California League of Conservation Voters is using its Web site to help visitors write letters to the editor. Ecovote Online, the Oakland, Calif., organization’s Web site, features information about the league’s campaign to promote Proposition 12, a state bond measure that would provide…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Intel to Train Teachers in Computer Technology
The Intel Corporation has started an ambitious program to train 400,000 teachers in 20 countries in the use of computer technology and teach them how to make it part of their classroom lessons. Over the next three years, the Santa Clara, Calif., company, which produces computer chips and other…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Contest’s Top Prize: Non-Profit Internships
Most Internet sweepstakes lure contestants with the promise of big checks, cars, and glamorous vacations, but Yahoo is sponsoring a contest where the prize is an internship at a non-profit organization. Entrants in the Yahoo Web Corps Internship Opportunity Contest will be competing for 10 summer…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
White House Asks Congress to Close ‘Digital Divide’
President Clinton is asking Congress to provide nearly $2.4-billion to help poor people and members of minority groups gain access to technology. Mr. Clinton is proposing that the government pass tax incentives worth $2-billion to encourage companies to donate computers to schools, libraries, and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Bits: Federal Grants, Arts Resources, Ways for Charities to Win Prizes and Earn Money
* The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program is accepting applications for $12.5-million in grants through March 16. The program, formerly known as the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, awards grants to non-profit organizations and state…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Links Researchers and Non-Profit Groups
A new Web site plays matchmaker between non-profit organizations with research needs and students and academics looking for projects. Link -- also the name of the new Stanford, Cal., non-profit group that runs the site -- allows charities to post research projects that they would like to have…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Digital Divide’ Draws Grant Makers’ Attention
The “digital divide” has become a hot topic in philanthropy. * A new documentary series entitled Digital Divide, airing this month on PBS, examines how income levels, race, and gender affect children’s access to technology both inside and outside the classroom. With a $300,000 grant from the Bill &…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Study Assesses Interactivity of Non-Profit Web Sites
Most non-profit organizations are not taking advantage of the Internet’s capabilities to build relationships with the people who visit their Web sites, according to a new report. The Peppers and Rogers Group, a marketing-consulting company in Stamford, Conn., analyzed the Web sites of 20 national…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
On-Line Toy Swap Benefits Cancer Center
Children are natural traders -- and now they can turn some of those Beanie Baby and Pokemon exchanges into a donation to charity. Swap.com, a new Web site that went on line the day after Christmas, lets kids across the country trade toys, games, books, and other items with one another. Parents must…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor