Microsoft Announces a New Contest
Microsoft wants to know how its software donations through Tech Soup have helped charities and libraries in the United States and Canada — so it’s holding a contest to find out. Winners of the Microsoft Impact Story Contest 2009 will be chosen based on their ability to show how the software helped…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How the Internet Has Changed Advocacy Work
The Internet is transforming the ways that groups come together and take action, Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody told participants at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. “We are living in the middle of the biggest expansion of expressive capability in the history of the human race,”…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Guide Looks at Low-Cost Fund-Raising Software
New guide looks at low-cost fund-raising software
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New York Charity Makes Its Software Available to Groups That Provide Mentors to Youngsters
Founded a decade ago, the New York charity iMentor pairs adults and children to meet in person and to intensify their ties through online communications. High-school students in the New York City nonprofit program meet with their mentors once a month, but weekly online messages that adults and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Technology Leaders Gather in San Francisco
More than 1,300 charity technology officials, consultants, and company representatives are gathering here in San Francisco this week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Sessions at the conference — which is organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network — will focus on topics like fund raising…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Venture Capital Fund Discusses Impact of the Economic Crisis
How the world economic crisis is affecting the Acumen Fund
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Keeping Charity-Owned Businesses Afloat in the Economic Downturn: Tips From Experts
Daunting economic conditions make it more challenging than ever for nonprofit groups to start a business or keep one afloat. Experts offer the following suggestions: Don’t panic. The fundamentals of business don’t change, even in a downturn, says Rolfe Larson, who runs a consulting company that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Organizations Look to Build Recession-Proof Business Ventures
With the economy making it challenging for nonprofit organizations to start or expand businesses that provide revenue for their programs, many groups are looking for ventures that will still be popular no matter how long the recession lasts. For instance, now that it is harder to sell produce…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The last 18 months have been tough for Trosa Moving, the largest of the five businesses run by Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, a nonprofit organization that runs a free, two-year treatment program in Durham, N.C. Last year diesel prices soared. Then, as the national economy…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Recession Brings Tough Challenges and Opportunities, Say Experts on Socially Run Businesses
The tumultuous economy will test the leaders of charity-run businesses in a way they have never been tested before, Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls, Jr., authors of Mission, Inc., told participants at the Social Enterprise Summit. But at the same time, they said, the downturn offers exciting…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor