Bits: An Onlineâ€“Fund Raising Survey, and a Conference for Grass-Roots Groups

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

May 16, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

The AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy and ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org are conducting an online survey that asks charities about their online fund raising. The results of the survey are scheduled to be included in Giving USA, an annual report on the state of philanthropy that the trust expects to issue in June. The deadline for responding to the survey is May 24. To get there: Go to http://www.ephilanthropyfoundation.org/survey_intro.
A conference called “Grassroots Use of the Internet” will be held June 22 at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn. The meeting is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Mass., that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go to http://www.organizenow.net.

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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.