Is Google creating a nonprofit portal?
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Fast Company’: the Growth of Social Enterprise
By Nicole WallaceThe language, practices, and outlooks of business and philanthropy are becoming increasingly intertwined in the field of social entrepreneurship, with important ramifications for both for-profit and nonprofit institutions, says Fast Company magazine (December). On the nonprofit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Ed Dept. Awards $32-million to Benetech
By Nicole Wallace The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $32-million grant over five years to Benetech, a technology charity in Palo Alto, Calif. The money will enable Benetech to add more than 100,000 new books to its Bookshare.org online library for people who are blind or have other…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Medical-Simulation Program Wins $15.6-Million Grant
By Nicole WallaceA San Francisco company has created complex medical-simulation software that allows health-care professionals to forecast the effectiveness and cost of different treatments and to compare the approaches. Now the company is getting philanthropic help — $15.6-million from the Robert…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Tech Museum Honors Five Innovative Charities
By Nicole WallaceThe Tech Museum of Innovation has presented its annual awards honoring the creative use of technology to promote economic development, education, the environment, equality, and health. Each of the five winners — all nonprofit groups — received $50,000: Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
60 Organizations Band Together to Influence 2008 Campaign
60 organizations unite to influence 2008 campaign
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Colonial Williamsburg Creates Digital Map
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is working hard to bring 18th-century Virginia to the Internet. The charity has embarked on an ambitious two-year project to create an online interactive map that will allow users to examine how the town changed during the 1700s and to learn about the people…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Giving Site Offers Donors a Satisfaction Guarantee
GlobalGiving — an online-donation site that matches donors with grass-roots social and economic-development projects in the developing world — is guaranteeing donations of up to $10,000. The Washington organization describes the move as a way to be more accountable to people who make contributions…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Chief Executives Named at Two Major Grant Makers
Two large foundations — the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Heinz Endowments — have named new chief executives. The Moore foundation, in San Francisco, has appointed Steven J. McCormick, the former president of the Nature Conservancy, as its new president, effective January 21. He will…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Human-rights group creates online hub to document abusesWitness, a human-rights organization in New York, has long worked with grass-roots groups ALSO SEE:Click on the images below to see examples of videos from the Witness Web site. VIDEO: Dual Injustice (requires Quicktime) VIDEO: Duty to Protect…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor