Bits: Free Data for Nonprofit Groups; and a Conference on Using the Internet

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

May 30, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

The National Priorities Project, a nonprofit organization in Northampton, Mass., has added a feature to its Web site that allows visitors to create tables and charts using data on social needs, demographics, and government spending collected by federal agencies. To get there: Go to http://data base.nationalpriorities.org.
The Performance Institute, a think tank in Alexandria, Va., that studies management practices, will hold an E-Philanthropy Summit July 18-19 in Washington. Topics to be discussed include using technology to raise money, recruit volunteers, and conduct advocacy campaigns. The cost for the conference is $895. For more information: Go to http://www.performanceweb.org.

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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.