Bits: Council on Foundations Launches ‘Emerging Issues’ Blog

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

July 21, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Council on Foundations, in Washington, has started a Web log, “Emerging Issues,” to highlight new trends in philanthropy. Among the topics discussed so far: a book about the repeal of the estate tax and recent foundation projects. To get there: Go http://blogs.cof.org/emergingissues.
Groundspring.org and Ebase are going their separate ways. Groundspring had acquired Ebase — a free database program that allows charities to keep track of donors, activists, and volunteers — in 2003. But now Groundspring, in San Francisco, says it is focusing on its mission of processing online donations and providing e-mail services to other charities. Groundspring also has discontinued AdvocacyNow, another product it acquired in 2003.

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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.