Bits: Webby Awards Includes Best Charitable-Organization Web Site Category

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

October 14, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute

The 2005 Webby Awards competition will include a new category for best charitable-organization Web site. The fee to submit an entry for consideration is $95, and the deadline is December 17. For more information: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com.
On October 26, the Philanthropic Initiative, a Boston nonprofit group that advises donors, will hold an online panel discussion titled, “Transformational Philanthropy: The Challenge of Significant Change.” Speakers include Cheryl Healton, president of the American Legacy Foundation; Melinda Marble, executive director of the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation; Ratna Omidvar, executive director of the Maytree Foundation; and Edward Skloot, executive director of the Surdna Foundation. To register: Go to http://www.tpi.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.