Applications Sought for 2004 Federal Grants

March 4, 2004

Approximately $12.9-million will be available for grants in the 2004 round of the Technology Opportunities Program.

Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Commerce program has awarded grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments for innovative technology projects in education, health care, economic development, and other areas. In 2003 the program awarded 28 grants totaling $13.95-million.

Applications are due on April 27. The program will hold workshops for potential applicants in Washington on March 23 and in Los Angeles on March 26.

For more information: Go to http://www.ntia.doc.gov/top.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.