Bits: A Software Site Shuts Down; Popular Online Forum Is Revived; and iGive Gifts Top $1-Billion

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

October 17, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Software Index, a Web site that described software programs designed for charities, shut down last month “due to resource constraints.” The site had been maintained by William A. Kleintop, a professor at Seton Hall University.
Marshall M. Burkes, Internet services administrator at the American Health Lawyers Association, in Washington, hasre-started the .Org Webmasters e-mail discussion list. The popular online forum for nonprofit Webmasters was discontinuedby its previous owner July 1. To subscribe: Go to http://www.discussionpro.com/orgwebmasters.
The total sum that iGive.com has raised for charities since its founding in 1997 surpassed $1-million last month. The Evanston, Ill., company operates a shopping Web site that allows customers to donate a portion of the cost of their purchases to charity. Many similar sites that opened in the late 1990s have gone out of business in the wake of the downturn in the technology industry.

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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.