Bits: The Community Collaborative Fund; Additions to TechSoup

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

January 25, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

Verizon Communications has contributed the first $2.5-million of the $25-million it plans to give to the Community Collaborative Fund. The fund will award grants to California programs that bring information technology to the poor, as well as to members of minority groups and the disabled. Verizon, created by last year’s merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic, agreed to establish the fund in the merger plan it presented to California regulators.
TechSoup is scheduled to add message boards — on such topics as online fund raising, technology planning, and computer hardware — to its Web site on January 25. The site has also entered into a partnership in which product reviews, articles, and other information from CNET, a leading technology portal, will appear on the TechSoup site. Run by CompuMentor, in San Francisco, TechSoup provides technology information for nonprofit organizations. To get there: Go to http://www.techsoup.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.