Offer by iTunes Benefits Charity Work in Darfur
Customers at iTunes, the online music site, can download new versions of classic John Lennon songs and help victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Amnesty International is using music to raise awareness about — and much-needed money for — the conflict, which has killed more than 300,000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Database Offers New Hope in Tuberculosis Fight
A new database could be an important tool in the battle against tuberculosis. Scientists finished sequencing the genome of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1998. Through a process called expression profiling, they can analyze infected tissue samples and determine which of the bacterium’s 4,000 genes…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
IBM Collaborates With Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy and IBM hope to harness the power of technology to conserve the world’s great rivers. By working together, the charity and the information-technology giant plan to develop a computer-modeling system that will bring together multiple sets of data about water quantity, climate,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Fenton Communications Purchases Donordigital
Fenton Communications, a consulting company in New York that advises nonprofit organizations, foundations, and other advocacy groups, has purchased Donordigital, a consulting company in San Francisco that helps nonprofit organizations with their online fund raising and advocacy. The merger goes…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nominations Sought for Technology Awards
The ePhilanthropy Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2007 International ePhilanthropy Awards, which honor innovative uses of the Internet for fund raising, membership, and activism. A new award will honor the best Web site or online campaign designed for older adults. Winners will receive…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Verizon Gives $31-Million for Education Web Site
Over the next three years, the Verizon Foundation, in Washington, will put $31-million toward its Thinkfinity.org educational and literacy program. The site provides more than 50,000 free lesson plans for elementary- and secondary-school students developed by leading educational institutions,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Google Shares Map Software With Holocaust Museum
Believing that information and understanding are the first steps toward action, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google are using the Internet company’s mapping technology to educate the public about the crisis in Darfur. The museum has assembled photographs, data, and eyewitness…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social Entrepreneurs Urged to Improve Business Skills
Carl J. Schramm, the head of one of the nation’s biggest foundations, challenged the 600 charity and business leaders gathered here late last month to wrestle with what it means to approach tough social problems in an entrepreneurial fashion — but also to recognize that social entrepreneurship…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social Entrepreneurs Seek New Investments to Reach a ‘Tipping Point’
On Oxford University’s 900-year-old campus, nonprofit leaders and others interested in the relatively new field of social entrepreneurship grappled with the need for more money to finance growth, the field’s relationship with business, and the very definition of what it means to be a social…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Financing Technology Projects Is a Struggle, Charities Say
A year and a half after Katrina showed how vital technology is to nonprofit organizations’ survival, money to pay for those much-needed systems is still hard to come by, Melissa S. Flournoy, president of the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, in Baton Rouge, told participants at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor