Software Company Offers New Fund-Raising Tool
The software company Convio is introducing a new online product, Common Ground, designed to help charities manage their interactions with donors and other supporters. With the introduction of Common Ground, the Austin, Tex., company is attempting to break into a segment of the nonprofit software…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Interactive Timeline Tells Charity’s 50-Year History
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Education Development Center, in Newton, Mass., has created an interactive timeline that draws on photography, audio, and video to tell the story of its work in education and health promotion. The organization has focused much of its energy on curriculum…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Contest Seeks Applicants in Creative Technology
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, is expanding its Digital Media and Learning Competition. The foundation will again provide $30,000 to $250,000 to innovative projects that demonstrate the use of technology to encourage participatory learning in which people share…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Mapping Tool Details Local Conditions
Nonprofit groups can use a new online service, PolicyMap, to create maps that show important crime, demographic, education, employment, health, and housing information about the neighborhoods in which they work. “We have loaded in almost 4,000 indicators, or pieces of information, that you can put…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter
Twitter raises money fast at a technology conference
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Company Decides Not to Go Public Due to Concerns About Stock Market
Convio, a company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit organizations, has withdrawn its bid to go public, citing unfavorable market conditions. The Austin, Tex., company, had filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2007 announcing its intention to sell…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit leaders work to persuade young professionals who arrived after Katrina to call city homeNot long after Jonathan Graboyes graduated from college last year, he headed to New Orleans in search of nonprofit work. “I sort of made a leap of faith in the city,” says Mr. Graboyes, now 23. “I…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Mal Warwick Associates To Acquire Donordigital
Mal Warwick Associates, a fund-raising consulting company in Berkeley, Calif., has announced that it intends to acquire Donordigital, a consulting company in San Francisco that specializes in online fund raising. For more information: Go to http://www.malwarwick.com or http://www.donordigital.com.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Pop-Up Box Prompts Donors to Share Views
A simple pop-up box has given the University of Pennsylvania a window into the minds of its online donors. After donors make an Internet gift to the university’s annual fund, a screen comes up with their receipt, along with a pop-up box that asks if they would like to say why they made their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Tool Helps Finance Housing
In an effort to go beyond charitable gifts and attract additional sources of capital to finance its work, Habitat for Humanity International has started a new social-investment program to speed up the construction of low-cost housing around the world. The Americus, Ga., housing organization is…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor