New Internet Search Tool Focuses on Philanthropy

May 6, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

Internet users can take advantage of a new, specialized search engine to find information about non-profit organizations and philanthropy on the Web.

The new site, PhilanthropySearch.com, lists Web sites run by non-profit organizations as well as Web sites that provide information or sell products to non-profit organizations — for example, sites that provide management advice or sell fund-raising software.

The information on the site is compiled by search-engine software that combs the Internet for sites that include non-profit and philanthropic keywords, which PhilanthropySearch.com employees then review to weed out irrelevant material. Non-profit organizations can also submit information about their Web sites at PhilanthropySearch.com to be added to the guide automatically.

Visitors to the site can conduct searches of the listings or browse through categories with clusters of related sites.

PhilanthropySearch.com was started by the Wentworth Group, a Dallas public-relations company, which plans to make money by selling advertising on the site.

TO GET THERE: Go to http://www.philanthropysearch.com.

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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.