Charities Offered Help With Millennium Bug
A Seattle non-profit group called NPower, which provides technology assistance to other charities, is organizing a “Y2K Day of Service,” during which more than 200 volunteers will help 140 local non-profit groups test their computers and software for possible year-2000 problems. The year-2000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Internet Search Tool Focuses on Philanthropy
Internet users can take advantage of a new, specialized search engine to find information about non-profit organizations and philanthropy on the Web. The new site, PhilanthropySearch.com, lists Web sites run by non-profit organizations as well as Web sites that provide information or sell products…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Auctions for Kosovo Relief to Benefit Red Cross
Five Internet-auction companies are working together to support efforts to aid Kosovar refugees. Amazon.com Auctions (http://www.amazon.com), eBay (http://www.ebay.com), LiveBid.com (http://www.livebid.com), Up4Sale (http://www.up4sale.com), and Yahoo Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com) are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Report Calls for Aid to Increase Use of Technology
A group of non-profit technology leaders has issued a report on potential ways to improve the use of information technology by charities. The National Strategy for Nonprofit Technology, a network of 24 charity leaders, grant makers, and consultants, has been meeting for the past year to discuss how…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Poverty Issues Discussed on New E-Mail List
A free e-mail list that provides information about poverty issues has been created by the Coalition on Human Needs. The coalition will use the list to distribute analyses of Congressional bills, action alerts, and notices of meetings on topics such as the federal budget, Social Security, and food…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Balkan Turmoil Could Signify Turning Point for Giving On Line
Americans are donating millions of dollars to charities helping the Kosovo refugees -- and unprecedented numbers of people are making their gifts via the Internet. ALSO SEE:Kosovo Crisis Bedevils Aid EffortsBrutality in Kosovo Turns Many Charity Relief Workers Into Refugees Technology is doing more…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Company Helps Charities Sell Phone and Internet Services
A Georgia telecommunications company has created an affinity program that will allow non-profit organizations to sell Internet and telephone services to their members and share in the profits. Through its Affinity Internet Service Provider program, AvTel Communications, in Atlanta, makes Internet…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Non-Profit Sites Win Web Awards
Nine Web sites run by non-profit organizations have been honored as the best in their fields. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a professional association for people who work with new communication technologies, presented the third annual Webby Awards in San Francisco last…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Groups to Receive Internet Training
A national program to provide Internet instruction to non-profit arts organizations is expanding its reach. Open Studio: The Arts Online will provide $25,000 apiece to 10 groups so they can train local artists and arts groups to use the Internet to communicate with one another, attract new people…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology and Public Policy Discussed on New List
A new e-mail discussion list focuses on how non-profit organizations can use technology for public-policy activities. The Nonprofits’ Policy & Technology Project, which is run by OMB Watch, a Washington non-profit group, created NPTalk as a forum to discuss how communications technology can be used…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor