Bits: Data Standards and a Survey on Non-Profit Issues

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

September 21, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

The Open Philanthropy Exchange Forum, a group of technology companies that provide products and services for charities, will meet in Chicago on September 21 to discuss the non-profit data-exchange protocol it introduced this summer (The Chronicle, August 10). The protocol is a set of specifications for formatting data about charitable donations that would allow information about gifts to move easily between computer applications. For more information: Go to http://www.opxinfo.net.
OMB Watch, a Washington policy organization, has posted a survey on its Web site that asks charity leaders to identify which issues of interest to the non-profit world are most important for the next president to deal with. The survey´s findings will be used to develop recommendations to present to the next administration. The survey will remain online through September 26. To get there: Go to http://ombwatch.org/npadv/2000/survey.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.