Bits: An Online News Service, an Internet Sing-Along, and a Group for Charity Web Masters

March 23, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The A.J. Fletcher Foundation, in Raleigh, N.C., has started a new Web site, Nonprofitxpress, which provides news about fund raising, non-profit management, giving, and volunteerism. The site, which also includes a section on non-profit news in North Carolina, is edited by Todd Cohen, who founded the Philanthropy News Network and the Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina. To get there: Go to http://www.nonprofitxpress.org.

* The California Voter Foundation wrote “The Proposition Song” to help voters wade through the 20 measures that were on the state’s primary ballot this month. A sing-along presentation of the song is available on the group’s site, and a compact disk was also available for California radio stations. To get there: Go to http://www.calvoter.org/2000/primary/propositions/song/index.html.

* Org Webmasters is a new e-mail discussion list for non-profit Web masters. The list was founded by Steve McGarry, a lawyer in Houston. To subscribe: Go to http://www.orgwebmasters.org.

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.