Creative Online Campaigns Win ‘ePhilanthropy’ Prizes
The ePhilanthropy Foundation has presented its awards for excellence in nonprofit use of the Internet for fund raising and advocacy. Mama Cash, an organization in Amsterdam, received the award for best fund-raising campaign for its second annual Campaign 88 Days, an effort to educate the public…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Should Nonprofit Conferences Go Virtual?
Should nonprofit conferences go virtual?
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Teenage Fund Raiser Posts Notes From Darfur
Nick Anderson, a teenager in Conway, Mass., has used the Internet to help raise tens of thousands of dollars for humanitarian aid in Darfur. Now he’s using the medium to share what he learned when he visited the troubled region of Sudan as a youth ambassador for Oxfam America. During the last…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Company Plans Stock Offering
Convio, an Austin, Tex., company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit groups, plans to go public. The company filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of August announcing its intention to sell shares of common stock in an initial public offering. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Celebs Gone Good Chronicles Charitable Activities of the Famous
Grassroots.org, a nonprofit technology organization, and SEO.com, a consulting company in Lehi, Utah, are offering free two-hour telephone consultations to help nonprofit organizations improve their visibility on Internet search-engine listings. For more information: Go to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Grant Competition Seeks Plans for Healthy Games
Video games often get a bad rap for encouraging unhealthy, sedentary behavior. But the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is looking for novel ways that video and computer games can actually promote health and well-being. The Princeton, N.J., foundation is co-sponsoring an online competition called…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Many Donors Go Online to Learn About Charities
A new survey suggests that an organization’s Web site is important to all kinds of donors, not just those who make gifts online. The study found that nearly 40 percent of people who support nonprofit organizations either as a donor, volunteer, or advocate report that they consult online sources of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit-Software Company Plans Stock Sale
Nonprofit-software company plans stock sale
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Young People Capture Horrors–and Hope–After Katrina
During the past two years, young people in New Orleans have been documenting life in their storm-ravaged city — and ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Struggling Toward RecoveryARTICLE: Blueprint for RebuildingARTICLE: Legal WranglingARTICLE: Charities in New Orleans See Increase in Giving by Returning…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor