Charities Offered Help Posting Public-Service Ads

July 15, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

Two Seattle software companies are helping non-profit organizations put their public-service announcements on line, at no charge.

One of the companies, Encoding.com, digitizes the charity’s videotaped announcement into a computer-formatted video file. The other company, Alive.com, then uses its software to create what it calls an “e-show,” which integrates logos, Web pages, slides, and other graphics into the public-service announcement.

Participating charities can either place the finished “e-show” on their own Internet computer server or link to it on Alive.com’s servers. There is no cost to non-profit groups for announcements under two minutes.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to http://www.alive.com/nonprofit.htm or contact Suzanne Swift, (206) 674-7700; nonprofits@alive.com.

About the Author

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.