‘Net Neutrality’ Is Topic of Grant-Maker Seminar

June 1, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Innovation Funders Network plans to hold a conference call for grant makers on “net neutrality” on June 9. The concept of net neutrality refers to the practice of handling all data traveling over the Internet in the same way, no matter which companies’ networks deliver it. Proposed legislation in Congress would allow telecommunications companies to give priority to data sent by customers who are willing to pay extra.

John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress, one of the organizations leading the “Save the Internet” campaign, and Mike McCurry, a partner at Public Strategies Washington, a company that runs public-relations campaigns for corporations, will be participating in the call, which is restricted to grant makers.

For more information: Go to http://nten.org/webinar-ifn.

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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.