Bits: Software for Conducting Health Studies; Internet-Training Curriculum

June 1, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The Population Council, a non-profit organization in New York, has made available free on its Web site the Household Registration System, software designed to help researchers conduct long-term demographic and public-health studies in developing countries. The council’s site offers a manual and other information on using the software, and visitors can sign up for an e-mail list that discusses both the use of the software and demography in general. The Ford Foundation, in New York, and the Thrasher Research Fund, in Salt Lake City, were among the foundations that awarded grants to develop and distribute the software. To get there: Go to http://www.popcouncil.org/hrs/hrs.html.

* Yahoo has created a training curriculum for non-profit organizations, libraries, schools, and community groups that want to teach people how to use the Internet. Organizations can request a free “Camp Yahoo Pack,” which includes a teacher’s guide and separate lesson plans for teaching children and adults. For more information: Go to http://camp.yahoo.com.

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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.