Bits: Gateway to Donate Computers, Software for Grass-Roots Groups, and a New Foundation

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

March 21, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

Gateway plans to give nonprofit organizations as many as 4,500 of the computers the company supplied to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for use during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The application for the donation program will be available online from April 2 to July 31. Before then, charities can register to receive more information when it becomes available in April. For more information: Go to http://www.gateway.com/olympics/donations.shtml.
The Organizers’ Collaborative, a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Mass., that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism, has developed a software program to help grass-roots organizations keep track of contact and giving information about their donors and activists. The Organizers’ DataBase can be downloaded free on the group’s Web site. To get there: Go to http://www.organizenow.net/odb.html.
Quark, a Denver company that produces desktop-publishing software, has started a company foundation. The company made an initial contribution of $3-million to the Quark Foundation. The foundation, which does not accept unsolicited grant proposals, will focus on education, health, and training.

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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.