Bits: C-Span Invites Viewers to Submit Videos via YouTube

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

April 17, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute

A two-day seminar on how to manage nonprofit technology projects will be held in Oakland, Calif., on May 20-21. The event is being organized by Aspiration, a San Francisco nonprofit group that seeks to connect charities to good-quality, low-cost software, and Idealware, a nonprofit organization in Portland, Me., that publishes reports on software designed for charities. For more information: Go to http://www.aspirationtech.org/events.
Each time someone signs up to play a new online game about curbing malaria during the month of April, supporters of the U.N. Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign will donate $10, enough to buy an insecticide-treated bed net that can prevent the spread of the disease. For more information: Go to http://www.nothingbutnets.net/game.
As the Pennsylvania primary approaches, C-Span, the nonprofit service that televises Congressional proceedings and other public-policy forums, is inviting viewers to submit videos to its YouTube channel answering the question “What issue in this election is most important to you, and why?” A selection of the videos will air on C-Span. For more information: Go to http://www.youtube.com/cspan.

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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.