New Owner Takes Over Database Program

April 17, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

Groundspring.org is taking over control of ebase, a free database program that allows charities to keep track of donors, activists, and volunteers. TechRocks, the San Francisco nonprofit group that developed the software, is scheduled to transfer the program by the end of the month. Formerly known as eGrants.org, Groundspring is a San Francisco nonprofit organization that processes online donations for more than 900 charities and also provides e-mail messaging systems for nonprofit groups.

Groundspring plans to develop ebase 3.0, which in addition to being available as a traditional database will also be available in a new Web-based version for a monthly fee. The organization will also offer a customer-support system for ebase. Bob Schmitt and Clif Graves, the two key software developers who created ebase, will become employees of Groundspring.

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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.