Bits: MobileActive Publishes Guide on Cell-Phone Advocacy

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

February 22, 2007

MobileActive, an Amherst, Mass., network of people who use cell phones to promote civic engagement, has published a guide on cell-phone advocacy. To get there: Go to http://www.mobileactive.org/guides.
Charity Navigator has added to its Web site an interactive map of Africa that allows visitors to search for charities rated by the watchdog organization that work on the continent. To get there: Go to http://www.charitynavigator.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.