International Charity Creates Site to Build Endowments
The Heifer Foundation, in Little Rock, Ark., is looking to the Internet to extend the reach of its charitable ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: After the FloodARTICLE: Charities Make Aggressive Efforts to Lure Generous Donors OnlineARTICLE: Group…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Group Finds That E-Mail Messages Spur Some Donors to Give More
As charities get better at raising money over the Internet, the results of their efforts are sometimes ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: After the FloodARTICLE: Charities Make Aggressive Efforts to Lure Generous Donors OnlineARTICLE: Election-Year…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Make Aggressive Efforts to Lure Generous Donors Online
Brown University’s annual fund is venturing into new territory. The annual fund never asked for more ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: After the FloodARTICLE: Group Finds That E-Mail Messages Spur Some Donors to Give MoreARTICLE: Election-Year…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online fund raising continues to rake in ever-larger amounts of donations, according to The Chronicle’s new survey: ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingARTICLE: Charities Make Aggressive Efforts to Lure Generous Donors OnlineARTICLE: Group Finds That E-Mail…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Site Promotes Nonprofit Research
IssueLab, a new organization in Chicago, is using the Internet to try to win greater exposure for research conducted by nonprofit organizations. “Our efforts are evenly split between providing a platform for organizations to archive that work, and pushing that work back out to journalists and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social Entrepreneurs Urged to Work With Governments
Social entrepreneurs have developed innovative approaches to pressing social problems, and government should do more to encourage them, according to a new paper. “Advancing Social Entrepreneurship,” published by the Aspen Institute, a think tank in Washington, and Root Cause, a nonprofit research…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: OMB Watch Creates Regulatory Resource Center
The ninth annual “Grassroots Use of Technology” conference will be held June 28 at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. It is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a group that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Auction Site Urges Users to Donate
EBay and its corporate foundation have started the Community Gives campaign to encourage people who use the auction site to donate to three charities — and to start things off, the foundation has made a $1-million grant to be shared by the groups. EBay users can make a gift either by donating the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bank Site Culls Details on 70 Foundations
Grant seekers have a new online resource to consult. Bank of America has created a Web site that provides information about 70 foundations for which it serves as trustee or grant-making agent. Profiles on the site detail each foundation’s mission and areas of interest, application procedures, and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Grant Contest Draws 15,000 Votes
More than 15,000 people voted in the final round of the Make It Your Own Awards to select the four winning charities, which received $35,000 each for projects designed to get Americans involved in civic causes. The Case Foundation, in Washington, received 4,641 submissions, and more than 100…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor