Bits: Innovation Funders Network Holds “Networks, Innovation, and Social Change” Meeting

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

January 12, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

Randal D. Pinkett, a consultant in Newark, N.J., who serves as a board member of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network and is a frequent speaker at nonprofit technology conferences, was the winner on the NBC reality television show The Apprentice. Mr. Pinkett chose to work on the construction of a condominium project in Jersey City for the Trump Organization, rather than on casino expansions in Atlantic City. For more information: Go to http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_4.
The Innovation Funders Network is holding a meeting entitled “Networks, Innovation, and Social Change” at the Wharton West Campus, in San Francisco, January 30-31. The conference will look at the ways nonprofit organizations use the Internet, cellular phones, and other communications technology to carry out their missions. The meeting is restricted to grant makers. For more information: Go to http://www.innovationfunders.org/2006/Summit.

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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.