Bits: Microsoft Donates to the National Fund for Workforce Solutions

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

June 12, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a workshop entitled “Amassing a Grass-Roots Army to Engage in Election 2008″ in Washington on June 17. Another workshop, “Intelligence, Media Monitoring, and Tracking the Buzz,” is scheduled for September 30. For more information: Go to http://innovativeadvocacy.com.
Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., has made a donation of $2-million in cash and $8-million in software to the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, an effort by foundations and the Department of Labor to train 50,000 low-income people for skilled jobs. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in Miami, has contributed $1.4-million, which will be used for online learning and other efforts. For more information: Go to http://www.nfwsolutions.org.

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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.