Technology Gathering Sets Plans for March
This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, which in 2007 drew 1,200 charity technology officials, consultants, and company representatives, will take place March 19-21 in New Orleans. The meeting, entitled “Building Community: Connections Around the Globe and Around the Corner,” is organized by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Plea for Caring and Capitalism
Both business and philanthropy will be necessary to transform the lives of poor people in the developing world, Bill Gates told business and political leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. In a speech delivered at the meeting, the co-founder of Microsoft…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Ian Wilhelm
Gates Foundation Unveils $306-Million in Agricultural Grants
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced six grants totaling $306-million for programs designed to increase agricultural productivity and income for small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. The projects seek to improve farming soil, develop more robust varieties of rice, increase access…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundations Seek Games With Social Benefits
Foundations are paying for two new efforts to support the burgeoning field of video games designed to promote social change and better health. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, has awarded a $450,000 grant to Games for Change and Parsons New School for Design, both in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
GuideStar Database Adds ‘Donate Now’ Feature
Donors have a new option when making charitable gifts online. GuideStar, a nonprofit organization in Williamsburg, Va., has added a “donate now” feature to its Web site, which provides reports on nonprofit groups based on the informational tax returns they file and other data. “An important part of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Giving Sites End Year With Big Gains
Two giving portals that allow donors to make contributions to the charities of their choice saw big jumps in online fund raising in 2007: Online gifts made through Network for Good, in Bethesda, Md., totaled $53.5-million in 2007, compared with $35.4-million in 2006, an increase of 51 percent.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Donors Overestimate Their Antipoverty Giving
Many donors say they want to support antipoverty efforts, but they don’t realize that the groups to which they contribute aren’t focusing on helping the needy, two Google executives told a gathering this month of academics, businesspeople, foundation leaders, and nonprofit officials at Stanford…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Climate Change and Poverty Top Google’s Giving Priorities
This article was updated after The Chronicle’s print edition went to press. For the full text, go to http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=3783 Tackling climate change, emerging health threats, and poverty in developing countries will top Google.org’s philanthropic agenda. After more…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Climate Change and Poverty Top Google’s Giving Priorities
Climate change and poverty top Google’s giving priorities
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Google Finance Site Includes Charity Details
Information on nonprofit organizations can be found in some unlikely places. Visitors to Google Finance who enter the name of a national charity, such as the American National Red Cross, can in some cases pull up a page that provides a summary of the organization’s work and links to recent news…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor