Nonprofit Technology Leaders Gather in San Francisco

April 27, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

More than 1,300 charity technology officials, consultants, and company representatives are gathering here in San Francisco this week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Sessions at the conference — which is organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network — will focus on topics like fund raising on mobile phones, nonprofit technology careers, ways to attract new online donors, measuring the effectiveness of social-media efforts, and creating podcasts.

Among the speakers will be Eben Moglen, founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, a book that looks at how people are using new technologies to organize in nontraditional ways.

About the Author

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.