Bits: Public Interest Registry Seeking Nominations for .Org Advisory Council

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

February 8, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has announced a $5-million grant to NPower that is contingent on the organization’s raising an equal amount of money. There is no deadline by which NPower has to raise the money, but the national network of 12 organizations that provide technology assistance to other charities hopes to raise $2.5-million this year.
The fourth annual International Computer Refurbishers Summit will take place March 9-10 in Washington. The meeting is organized by TechSoup.org, a service of CompuMentor that provides technology information for nonprofit organizations, and by Computers for Schools, an association of computer refurbishers from across the country. For more information: Go to http://www.crs.memberlodge.org.
The Public Interest Registry, the Reston, Va., organization that manages the dot-org Internet domain that is used by nonprofit groups, is seeking nominations for eight seats on its .ORG Advisory Council. Nomination statements are due March 14. Self-nominations are permitted. For more information: Go to http://www.pir.org.

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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.