Bits: A $313.8-Million Software Gift, and an Analysis of Online Gift Giving

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

December 12, 2002

Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, has received computer-aided design software valued at $313.8-million through a joint effort by EDS, General Motors, and Sun Microsystems. For more information: Go to http://www.pacepartners.org.
Kintera, a company in San Diego that leases software that helps nonprofit organizations raise money online, analyzed 300,000 online donations made through the company’s system between September 1, 2000, and November 1, 2002, and found that 71 percent of those gifts were made on weekdays between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

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.