Bits: Spanish Version of eTapestry Now Available

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

September 18, 2008

The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has given software worth $2.9-million to TechnoServe, a Washington group that works to fight rural poverty around the world, and software worth $2.5-million to Ashoka, a charity in Arlington, Va., that supports social entrepreneurship. For more information: Go to http://www.technoserve.org and http://www.ashoka.org.
eTapestry, a software company owned by Blackbaud that provides a Web-based database designed to help charities manage their donor records, has released a Spanish-language version of its software. To get there: Go to http://www.etapestry.com.

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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.