Bits: On-Line Regulation and Raising Money for Technology Projects

September 23, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* For the first time, state charity regulators and leaders of non-profit organizations will meet formally to publicly discuss how fund-raising laws apply to Internet solicitations. The topic is the focus of the annual conference of the National Association of State Charity Officials, in Charleston, S.C. Attendance at the public session on October 12 is restricted to the first 100 registrants. For more information: Contact Leslie Ellis, Project Assistant, National Association of Attorneys General, 750 First Street, N.E., Suite 1100, Washington 20002; (202) 326-6053.

* The current issue of Digital Canvas, Open Studio’s on-line magazine about the arts and technology, focuses on raising money for technology projects. Open Studio is a Benton Foundation program that provides Internet training to artists and arts groups. To get there: Go to http://www.openstudio.org/newsletter1601/newsletter.htm.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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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.