Bits: Fellowships for Technology Writers; E-mail Greetings Benefit Charities

March 9, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, in New York, has committed $845,000 over the next two years to a new fellowship program to support writers who are examining the effects of information technology on society. The Markle Fellows program is part of a fellowship program run by the New America Foundation, a non-profit policy institute in Washington. Four fellows will be named this year and five in 2001. The grants that the fellows receive will range from $40,000 to $75,000, and each fellowship will last for one year. For more information: Go to http://www.markle.org.

* In addition to letting customers donate a portion of the purchases they make to charity, iReachOut.com, a shopping site formerly known as Shop4Charity.com, will also donate 10 cents for each e-mail greeting they send from the site. Shoppers choose the charity they would like to support from a list of more than 160 local and national non-profit organizations. To get there: Go to http://www.ireachout.com.

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.