Bits: Surdna Foundation Awards $750,000 to CompuMentor

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

October 16, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, in San Francisco, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups, plans to hold regional technology conferences in Washington on October 23, in Boston November 5-6, and in Phoenix November 13. For more information: Go to http://www.nten.org.
The Surdna Foundation, in New York, has awarded a three-year $750,000 grant to CompuMentor, a San Francisco charity that provides technology assistance to other charities, to expand two of its programs: TechSoup, a nonprofit technology portal, and DiscounTech, an online service that distributes donated and discounted technology products to nonprofit organizations. To get there: Go to http://www.compumentor.org.
The SBC Foundation, in San Antonio, has awarded $9-million to more than 680 nonprofit organizations for projects that help charities use technology to operate more efficiently and better fulfill their missions. For more information: Go to http://www.sbc.com/foundation.

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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.