How a Mississippi Charity Uses Bus Tours to Inform Donors

November 4, 2010

The Mississippi Center for Justice, a public-interest law firm focused on poverty and race issues, has found a way to give donors a hands-on look at some of the problems facing the state.

Once a year, the group organizes a bus tour for donors that visits historical landmarks and cultural centers around Mississippi.

The Chronicle tagged along on a recent tour. Watch the slideshow above to see how one woman described her experience on the tour.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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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.