Charities Offered Free Help With Commercial Sites
Non-profit organizations can sign up to add “shopping malls” to their Web sites through Shop2Give, a company that allows on-line shoppers to designate a portion of their purchases to charity. Since December, shoppers at the Shop2Give Web site -- which includes more than 30 on-line retailers, such…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Advice on Year-2000 Problem Offered in Non-Profit Guide
A new publication is available to help charities determine if their computers and software programs may be affected by the year-2000 problem. The year-2000 problem arises because much of the computer hardware and software still in use today identifies years by only the last two digits, and those…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Site Aids Shoppers Who Want to Help Charities
A Seattle company is helping non-profit groups tap into the growing amount of money that people spend on line. GreaterGood.com builds and maintains on-line “shopping villages” for non-profit groups -- at no cost to the charity. The villages include participating retailers such as Amazon.com,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Profiles of Business Ventures Posted on the Internet
Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization in Washington, has introduced a new Web site, CommunityWealth.org, that offers examples of how non-profit organizations are developing non-traditional sources of revenue. The site features profiles of more than 90 non-profit business ventures,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Non-Profit Publicity Campaigns Honored for Creativity and Innovation
Innovative advertisements created for non-profit organizations around the world were honored last month at the 39th Annual Clio Awards in New York. An Australian campaign designed for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines won a gold Clio. The organization scattered circular stickers,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
On-Line Sources of Information About Lobbying Campaigns
Benton Foundation: Advocacy on the ‘Net http://www.benton.org/Practice/Best/advoc.html The Benton Foundation, an operating foundation in Washington, provides links to the Web sites of non-profit organizations that it thinks use the Internet effectively in their advocacy work, such as the Children’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Discussion Groups for Fund Raisers
A handful of new Internet discussion groups for non-profit officials have been started. American Philanthropy Review, a company in Rancho Santa Margarita, Cal., that sells and reviews non-profit publications, is moderating four new forums aimed at arts fund raising, grant seeking, health-care…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
E-Mail Newsletter Offered to Charities
A free monthly newsletter is intended to help charities use e-mail and the World-Wide Web effectively in their work. Net Results is published by Lipman Hearne, a company in Chicago that provides marketing and communications services to non-profit organizations, and is delivered via e-mail. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Government Grants Available for Technology
The Commerce Department is giving out $17-million this year through its Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program. The goal of the project is to improve education, health care, libraries, and other such services by using technology. The National Urban League in New York,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Grant Maker Showcases Islamic Art on the Web
The Rockefeller Foundation is hoping its Web site will broaden understanding of Islamic art. The New York grant maker is displaying “Modernities & Memories,” a collection of works by 13 different Islamic artists from nine countries, on the Internet. The original exhibit, which the Rockefeller…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor