Bits: Spam Prevention and Technology Volunteers

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

December 11, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

On December 12 — the first annual Spam Prevention Day — Mailshell, a company in San Francisco, will give any nonprofit organization that visits the Web site http://www.stopspamtoday.org a free one-year subscription for its anti-spam software that can be used by each of the charity’s employees. The company is organizing its donation program with TechSoup, a service of CompuMentor that provides free and discounted technology products to nonprofit groups.
Harbinger Partners, a Boston nonprofit organization that matches charities with technology volunteers from companies, such as Cisco Systems, Fidelity Investments, and State Street Bank, is accepting applications for the next round of its Technology Pioneers Program. The submission deadline for interested charities is January 15. For more information: Go to http://www.harbingerpartners.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.