Bits: Microsoft To Contribute $3-Million to NPower

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

June 24, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., will contribute $3-million in cash over two years to NPower, a network of 12 nonprofit organizations across the country that provide technology assistance to other charities.
Two guides to completing the Form 990-PF informational tax returns that private foundations file with the Internal Revenue Service are available online from the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. One pamphlet is designed for foundation officers, while the other is designed for tax preparers. Both are written by John Edie, former general counsel at the Council on Foundations. To get there: Go to http://www.givingforum.org/news.
Groundspring.org has started offering online classes on electronic communications and Internet fund raising. Class prices start at $19. Groundspring is a San Francisco organization that processes online donations for small and medium-sized charities. For more information: Go to http://www.groundspring.org/training/online_training.cfm.

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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.