Credit-Card Promotion Seeks to Spur Business Gifts
Charity marketing deals with credit-card companies aren’t new, but Advanta — one of the largest credit-card issuers in the small-business market — hopes that its new partnership with Kiva, a charity that makes small loans, will help both the organization and Advanta’s customers. Kiva is a San…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fight for Survival Revives New Orleans Neighborhood
By Nicole WallaceNot long after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding that devastated New Orleans, a city ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Rebuilding Block by BlockARTICLE: Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a Neighborhood planning commission recommended that the neighborhood of Broadmoor not be…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a Neighborhood
By Nicole WallaceWhen Patricia A. Jones looks at the neighborhood group she helped to create a little more than two years ago, she can’t believe how far it has come. The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association, or NENA, is leading ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Rebuilding Block by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Neighborhood groups shine in New Orleans recovery effortNew Orleans On the second Wednesday of every month, the parking lot at 801 Harrison Avenue — a main ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a NeighborhoodARTICLE: Fight for Survival Revives New Orleans Neighborhood…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
E-Mail Readership Rate for Charities Fell in 2007
The percentage of people who opened or responded to e-mail messages sent by 21 large national nonprofit organizations dropped in 2007, even as the amount of money those organizations raised online increased, according to a new study. The percentage of people who opened messages from the charities,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: C-Span Invites Viewers to Submit Videos via YouTube
A two-day seminar on how to manage nonprofit technology projects will be held in Oakland, Calif., on May 20-21. The event is being organized by Aspiration, a San Francisco nonprofit group that seeks to connect charities to good-quality, low-cost software, and Idealware, a nonprofit organization in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Few Charity Supporters Read Nonprofit Blogs
Only a small percentage of charity supporters — 6 percent — read blogs, social-networking sites, or RSS feeds to keep up with the organizations they care about, according to a new survey. But 43 percent of the people surveyed said that they were interested in receiving such information through…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Text Messages Alert Teenagers to Volunteer Options
Volunteer opportunities for teenagers are now just a text message away. Do Something, a youth organization in New York, has collaborated with VolunteerMatch, Idealist, and the Points of Light & Hands On Network to create an online database of volunteer openings designed for teenagers. Young people…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
White House Office Seeks Charity Videos
The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives hopes to highlight the work of nonprofit organizations that have received federal grants by encouraging them to create videos telling their stories. The Portraits of Compassion video contest is open to charities that have received…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Group Seeks Internet Links for Low-Cost Housing
One Economy has set an ambitious goal — to bring high-speed Internet service to 500,000 low-income households over the next two years. To do that, the Washington technology organization plans to raise $12-million and expand an equity fund that uses low-income housing tax credits to make money…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor