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Bits: OMB Watch Creates Regulatory Resource Center

May 15, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute

  • The ninth annual “Grassroots Use of Technology” conference will be held June 28 at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. It is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a group that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go to http://organizerscollaborative.org/conference.
  • OMB Watch, a government-watchdog group, has created a Web site, the Regulatory Resource Center, that explains how the federal regulatory process works and offers advice on how to find rules in the Federal Register, comment on federal regulations, and file a petition for rule making. To get there: Go to http://www.ombwatch.org/regresources.


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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.