Microsoft Gives Software to 5 Groups

July 25, 2002

The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., has awarded more than $3.3-million in software to five nonprofit organizations through its Technology Leadership Grant program.

The largest grant, $2-million in software, was awarded to Special Olympics, in Washington, D.C. The organization plans to use the award to standardize and upgrade the software it uses in its 60 program offices across the country.

Microsoft awarded other software grants to the American Red Cross, in Washington, $350,000; Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, in Philadelphia, $600,000; Earthjustice, in Oakland, Calif., $200,000; and Public Allies, in Milwaukee, $200,000.

For more information: Go to http://www.microsoft.com/giving.

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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.