Bits: National Center for Law and Economic Justice To End Low Income Networking and Communications Project

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

July 20, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

By Nicole Wallace

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice — formerly known as the Welfare Law Center — plans to end its Low Income Networking and Communications Project in August because of a lack of money. Since its founding in 1998, the LINC Project has helped grass-roots antipoverty groups improve their technological capacity. The information and case studies on the LINC Project’s Web site will be available online even after the program is discontinued. For more information: Go to http://www.lincproject.org.
Harris Interactive will hold a free Web seminar on July 19 to discuss the results of the polling company’s quarterly survey of donor attitudes and behavior. To register: Go to http://harrisinteractive.webex.com.
A new blog, 2Nonprofits, provides information to business people who are interested in moving to a job at a nonprofit organization. The Web site is a project of the Business2Nonprofits Transition Program at the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University, in New York. To get there: Go to http://2nonprofits.org.
Nominations are being accepted for the third annual Development Gateway Award, a $100,000 prize that honors innovative uses of information technology to improve the lives of people in the developing world. The focus of this year’s award is technology programs for young people. The deadline for nominations is August 11. For more information: Go to http://www.developmentgateway.org/award.

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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.