Bits: An Electronic-Giving Survey, a Web Site’s Millionth Volunteer

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

March 6, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

The AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy and ePhilanthropyFoundation.org are conducting an online survey asking nonprofit organizations about their use of the Internet for fund raising in 2001 and 2002. The deadline for completing the survey is March 24. Results will be included in Giving USA, the trust’s annual report on the state of philanthropy, which is scheduled for release this summer. For more information: Go to http://www.ephilanthropyfoundation.org.
Sophia Wu, an eighth grader from Southern California, recently became the one millionth potential volunteer put in touch with a charity in need of assistance by VolunteerMatch. Sophia was looking for volunteer opportunities as part of a class project, and plans to volunteer with the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. The online volunteer-matching service was founded in April 1998.

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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.