Charity’s Campaign Mimics Initial Public Offering
The Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County is going public. Taking a page from the playbook of the high-technology companies that dominate Silicon Valley, the San Jose, Cal., volunteer center is modeling its annual fund-raising campaign on an initial public offering. In the business world, an…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: On-Line Regulation and Raising Money for Technology Projects
* For the first time, state charity regulators and leaders of non-profit organizations will meet formally to publicly discuss how fund-raising laws apply to Internet solicitations. The topic is the focus of the annual conference of the National Association of State Charity Officials, in Charleston,…
By NICOLE WALLACE and GRANT WILLIAMS
On-Line Advice Offered to Discussion-Group Leaders
How many times have you joined a new e-mail discussion list only to find that the initial burst of enthusiastic messages slowed to a trickle in a matter of weeks? Two international organizations, Management Sciences for Health, in Boston, and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Topics Featured in On-Line Magazine
A new on-line magazine, Nonprofit Toolkit, provides in-depth information about technology issues facing non-profit organizations. Although it is published by Arts Wire, a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts that helps arts organizations better use technology, Nonprofit Toolkit aims to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet Shopping Service Benefits Charities 2 Ways
A new on-line shopping service is offering two different ways for charities to benefit from on-line purchases. Dash.com, a company in New York, has negotiated rebate agreements with more than 50 on-line merchants, including GourmetMarket.com, NetGrocer, and Reel.com. Customers who sign up for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
White House Starts Web Site to Promote Giving Meeting
The use of satellite and Internet technology will allow citizens across the country to participate in next month’s White House Conference on Philanthropy. On October 22, the White House Conference on Philanthropy: Gifts to the Future will discuss the American tradition of giving and ways to pass…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Bits: Board Listings and an Effort to Close the “Digital Divide”
* BoardClassifieds, a new Web site, lists available trustee positions at non-profit organizations in the San Francisco area and allows candidates to submit their applications on line. The Web site is run by the Volunteer Center of San Francisco and the Support Center for Nonprofit Management/NDC,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Software Helps Charities With Virtual ‘Shopping Malls’
New software gives non-profit organizations more control over their on-line “shopping malls” -- sites through which charities collect a percentage of the money that consumers spend on various products. Shop2Give, a Los Angeles company that sponsors its own site to raise money for charities, also…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Non-Profit Managers Offered On-Line Advice
A new Web site, InnoNet’s Workstation for Innovative Nonprofits, offers planning and evaluation help for charities. The Web site features interactive work sheets that non-profit staff members can use to design new programs and evaluation procedures. Later this fall, users will also be able to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Goodwill Creates On-Line Auction Site
Shoppers who scour their local Goodwill for hidden treasures now have another place to search -- the Internet. Goodwill Industries of Orange County, in Santa Ana, Cal., has set up an on-line auction site to sell valuable and unusual items it has received as donations. The site was built by Kruzin…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor