Bits: An New E-Mail List and a Conference on Nonprofit Technology

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

October 5, 2000

By NICOLE WALLACE

Sue Ellen Smith, at the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, has started the Environmental Fundraisers Discussion List. Participation is restricted to fund raisers who work for environmental groups. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to sesmith@cccturtle.org that includes your name, title, the organization for which you work, and a brief description of your duties.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunity Program will hold its annual Networks for People conference October 30-31 in Arlington, Va. For more information: Go to http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html.

About the Author

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.