Bits: Help With Technology Volunteers, and Computer Power Against Anthrax

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

February 21, 2002

During the week of February 25, TechSoup, a Web site that provides technology information for charities, will hold an online discussion about managing volunteers who work on technology projects and volunteers who do their assignments online. To get there: Go to http://www.techsoup.org.
The Anthrax Research Project allows computer users to donate their machines’ excess processing power to researchers at Oxford University who are looking for a way to prevent the toxicity that leads to the disease. For more information: Go to http://www.intel.com/cure.

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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.