Nominations Sought for New Internet Awards

July 21, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new awards program plans to honor innovative uses of the Internet by charities.

The International ePhilanthropy Awards will recognize nonprofit excellence in four categories: fund-raising campaigns; event registration or membership campaigns; community building, volunteerism, or advocacy campaigns; and e-philanthropy research projects.

The ePhilanthropy Foundation, a Washington organization that promotes the ethical use of the Internet in fund raising, is organizing the awards program. Nonprofit groups can nominate their own sites; all submissions are due August 1.

Seven judges — including the founder of the Webby Awards, America Online’s vice president for community investment, and an official from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation — will select the winners, who will be announced at an awards ceremony on September 22.

Winners will receive a glass sculpture and a $500 donation to their favorite charity.

For more information: Go to http://ephilanthropy.org/awards.

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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.