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Bits: NPower Receives Grant

June 26, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

  • NPower, a network of organizations that provide technology assistance to other charities, has received a $50,000 grant from the SBC Foundation to update an emergency-preparedness guide created by its New York affiliate to share lessons learned by area nonprofit groups after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The revised guide will be available later this year.
  • Energize, a Philadelphia company that publishes materials for managers of volunteers, will hold a series of online chats with volunteerism experts July 7-11. Consultants on volunteerism, including Steve McCurley, Betty Stallings, and Sue Vineyard, will answer questions posed during the live chats and from message boards. For more information: Go to http://www.energizeinc.com/bookstore.html.


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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.