Bits: How the Internet Can Help Nonprofit Groups; a Site to Assist Voters; Raising Money From Gays and Lesbians

September 6, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

A conference entitled “The Power of the Internet to Expand Giving, Volunteering, and Community Building” will be held September 24 and 25 in McLean, Va. The meeting is being run by several organizations, including Independent Sector, the AOL Time Warner Foundation, and the Verizon Foundation. For more information: Go to http://www.independentsector.org/e_philanthropy/main.htm.
New York City residents can go to a new Web site, RegisteredToVoteOrNot.com, to find out whether they are registered, where their polling place is located, and who the candidates are in their district. The site is a project of two nonprofit groups dedicated to increasing civic participation — E The People and SavvyVoter.org. To get there: Go to http://www.registeredtovoteornot.com.
The Gay and Lesbian Fundraisers List is a new e-mail list for fund-raising discussions, with particular emphasis on gay and lesbian issues and development work at AIDS organizations. To subscribe: Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fundraisers.

About the Author

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.