Bits: Software-Donation Program; Virus Vaccination Day

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

March 8, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

The Microsoft Corporation will be accepting applications for its Technology Leadership Grant program through April 2. Since 1997, the program has awarded Microsoft software to help large nonprofit groups improve their communications and operations and to use the Internet to deliver services. Last year nine charities received software donations that ranged in value from $105,000 to $2.3-million each. Applications must be submitted via e-mail. For more information: Go to http://www.microsoft.com/giving/np_tsolu.htm.
On March 24 CompuMentor, in San Francisco, is sponsoring Virus Vaccination Day, a free event to help small and medium-sized charities in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties protect their computers from viruses. Participating charities will receive free Norton AntiVirus software, instruction on how to use it, and assistance from a volunteer in installing the software. For more information: Go to http://www.compumentor.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.