Bits: Resources on Advocacy, Educational Technology, and Using Broadcasting and the Internet for the Public Good

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

January 11, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

The Benton Foundation has published a packet of resources, Public Media in the Digital Age, that discusses how communities are using public broadcasting, cable-access channels, and online community networks to strengthen education, social services, health care, and civic participation. For more information: Contact the Benton Foundation, 950 18th Street, N.W., Washington 20006; (202) 638-5770; benton@benton.org.
Just Add Consciousness: A Guide to Social Activism, an advocacy manual for young people, is now available online. Written by activists from Bread for the World, Campus Outreach Opportunity League, and Oxfam America, it offers advice on how to organize letter-writing and phone campaigns, plan demonstrations and teach-ins, meet with elected officials, and use the Internet for advocacy work. To get there: Go to http://www.oxfamamerica.org/fast/advocguide.html.
NetDayCompass is a new Web site for elementary and secondary educators that features links to Web sites that provide information on technology planning, building technology infrastructure, grant seeking, and integrating technology into school curricula. The site was developed by NetDay, a charity in Irvine, Calif., that originally led volunteer efforts to wire schools for the Internet. To get there: Go to http://www.netdaycompass.org.

About the Author

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.