Bits: A Technology Leader to Head AmeriCorps, Gates’s Grants, and Grants for Grass-Roots Advocacy

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

July 24, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

President Bush has nominated David Eisner to be the new head of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that oversees AmeriCorps. A longtime proponent of nonprofit technology, Mr. Eisner was until recently senior vice president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, then in Dulles, Va., and has served on the boards of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, in San Francisco, and Technology Works for Good, in Washington.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle, has awarded a three-year, $1.05-million grant to Libraries for the Future, in New York, to help libraries in 10 states attract new patrons and become centers for computer literacy and education. The group must match the money provided by Gates with dollars from other sources. For more information: Go to http://www.lff.org.
The Progressive Technology Project, in St. Paul, is accepting proposals for its eighth annual Organizing Technology Grants program through August 29. The program will award 10 to 15 grants of up to $10,000 each to support the use of technology in the advocacy work of grass-roots social-change and environmental-justice organizations. For more information: Go to http://www.progressivetech.org.

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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.