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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.

Advocacy

Charity’s Co-Founder Risks Upending Her Successful Program

Kirsten Lodal, who helped launch the antipoverty group Lift while she was a college sophomore, says the group initially tried to be all things to all people but had better success after it narrowed its focus.

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Solutions

Using Data to Help People in Distress Get Help Faster

Crisis Text Line created an algorithm that analyzes messages to its hotline to predict which ones are most serious and push them to the front of the line.

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Design Nonprofit’s Auction Features Experiences — Not Stuff
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Design Nonprofit’s Auction Features Experiences — Not Stuff

Among the items up for bid at the Van Alen Institute’s auctions are a jaunt around Madrid with a prize-winning architect and the chance to build a chandelier with a New York lighting designer.

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Solutions

Case Study: Patterns Found in Data Help Charity Fight Poverty

Talking to poor families and analyzing the resulting data help the Family Independence Initiative get grants and help participants improve their economic well-being.

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Technology

Data to the Rescue: Smart Ways of Doing Good

For a long time, data served one purpose — measuring results. But a growing number of nonprofits are rejecting the idea that data is only for evaluation.

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How to Cross the Data Divide
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How to Cross the Data Divide

Experts outline ways that even cash-strapped charities can plug in to boost their impact.

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Advocacy

The Next Best Thing to Being There

The cutting-edge technology is an expensive, thrilling new tool a few charities are using to raise support.

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Advocacy

How 4 Nonprofits Use Virtual Reality to Help Their Cause

Charities get creative with a technology that can have an immediate and powerful impact on donors, but they also discover pitfalls.

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Solutions

Is Virtual Reality Right for Your Group? How to Find Out — and Do It Right

Keep it short, skip the call to action, consider alternatives to video, and other tips.

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Caring for a Brutal War’s Youngest Victims
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Caring for a Brutal War’s Youngest Victims

Five years into Syria’s grinding civil conflict, Save the Children is working to support schools and clinics, provide humanitarian relief, reunite families, and give kids a safe place to play.

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