Contest Seeks Wireless Fixes for Social Problems

December 11, 2008

The Vodafone Americas Foundation is sponsoring a competition that will award a total of $600,000 for projects that use wireless technology to help solve critical social problems.

Winners of the Wireless Innovation Challenge will receive awards of $100,000, $200,000, and $300,000, to be paid over three years, and will be announced in April.

Submissions are due February 2.

For more information: Go to http:// challenge.vodafone-us.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.