Bits: Grants Aid Technology Projects, Fund-Raising Tips for Groups That Help Animals

August 8, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

The United Negro College Fund, in Fairfax, Va., has received $25-million worth of software from the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash. This gift brings the total that the fund has raised for its Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign (The Chronicle, April 4) to $118.9-million in cash, computer products, and other in-kind contributions. For more information: Go to http://www.uncf.org.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, in Flint, Mich., and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Mich., have awarded grants totaling $750,000 for the TechSoup Web site. Run by CompuMentor, a nonprofit group in San Francisco, TechSoup offers news, information, and online discussions about technology and provides charities with access to discounted software. To get there: Go to http://www.techsoup.org.
The Fund for Animals, an animal-protection organization in New York, has created a new Web site, AnimalFunding.org, to offer fund-raising advice to other animal-related charities. The site includes information about grant seeking, direct mail, on-the-job giving, and Internet fund raising, as well as links to sites that provide additional information. To get there: Go to http://www.animalfunding.org.

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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.