Federal Technology Program Increases Grants to Charities

January 25, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program will award approximately $42.5-million in grants this year, up from $12.5-million in 2000.

Started in 1994, the program awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to integrate technology into education, health-care, public-safety, and other projects.

The program will hold free workshops in Washington on February 2, in Denver on February 6, and in St. Louis on February 8 for organizations that are interested in applying.

The deadline for applications is March 22. Winners will be announced in the fall.

For more information: Go to http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top.

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.