Bits: Peace Corps Offers Teachers Advice on Integrating Volunteer Projects into Lesson Plans

November 15, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

“Contributor Relationship Management: How Nonprofits Can Harness the Power of Technology to Build One-to-One Relationships” discusses how charities can raise more money by using database and Internet technology to tailor interactions with donors to the specific interests donors care about. Shirley Sexton, a manager in the Global Nonprofit Practice at Commerce One, a technology-services company, wrote the paper as part of her master’s studies at the Johns Hopkins University. To get there: Go to http://www.charitychannel.com/GuestShare
/shirley_sexton.
4A new Web site, developed by the Peace Corps, offers advice to teachers on how they can integrate volunteer projects into their lesson plans. To get there: Go to http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/service.

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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.