Event Brings Together Developers for Social Good

October 29, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit, in Oakland, Calif., on November 18-20 will bring together programmers and developers who are building or interested in building software and Web tools for charities and social-justice causes. For more information: Go to http://www.aspirationtech.org.
Google Flu Trends now tracks the illness in 20 countries and is available in 37 languages. The Mountain View, Calif., company analyzes the popularity of flu-related queries on its search engine to provide real-time estimates of flu activity. To get there: Go to http://www.google.org/flutrends.
Eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries can request Windows 7 upgrades for $8 per work station for the professional upgrade and $9 per work station for the enterprise upgrade through TechSoup. Educational institutions, political and religious organizations, healthcare networks, and private foundations do not qualify for Microsoft product donations. For more information: Go to http://www.techsoup.org/go/windows7.

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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.