Bits: Conference Highlights to be Posted Online; E-Mail List for Activists
* Highlights from the Council on Foundations’ annual conference, which takes place May 1-3 in Los Angeles, will be posted on the council’s Web site during the meeting. Some of the highlights will be available as sound and video files. To get there: Go to http://www.cof.org/simulconference/ac2000. *…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Virtual’ Volunteers Subject of New Guide
A new guide is available for charities that want to add a “virtual” component to their volunteer program. The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: How to Apply the Principles of Real-World Volunteer Management to Online Service, a 133-page book available free online, explains how to recruit, manage, and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Group Raises Money for Business Loans to Women
Count Me In is a new Internet-based organization that raises money to make small-business loans to women. After raising almost $1-million -- from such grant makers as the American Express Foundation, BP Amoco, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, and the Friedman Family Fund -- for its start-up…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Effort to Promote Use of Film to Aid Social Causes
A new online effort is trying to use film and video to promote awareness of social problems -- and the charities working to alleviate them. The Visionaries, a non-profit group in Braintree, Mass., has started an Internet channel to broadcast its own stories about non-profit organizations and to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Guide to Conducting Online Advocacy Without Overstepping Federal Restrictions
E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Law of Lobbying and Election-Related Activity on the Net, by Elizabeth Kingsley, Gail Harmon, John Pomeranz, and Kay Guinane, explains how non-profit organizations can use the Internet for lobbying and political advocacy while staying within the law. In general, the…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Study Assesses Results of Management-Assistance Project
Community Foundations Initiative on Management Assistance: Phase One Evaluation, by Renee A. Berger, documents the initial findings of a project financed by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation geared to strengthening the ties between community foundations and local non-profit groups. In 1994…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Book Questions Whether Charities Should Adopt New Management Trends
Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Book Offers Advice on Managing Churches and Religious Charities
Faith-Based Management: Leading Organizations That Are Based on More Than Just Mission
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Charities are struggling to compete for qualified computer employees Since last fall, Peggy Connolly has been trying to hire someone to oversee Oxfam America’s World Wide Web site, ALSO SEE: Average Salaries of Technology Workers but so far her search hasn’t yielded any hits. The international aid…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
$8-Billion in Charity Aid Donated by U.S. Broadcasting Stations
Television and radio broadcasters across the nation donated $5.6-billion worth of airtime last year for announcements about charitable causes, according to a new survey by the National Association of Broadcasters. In addition, stations gave another $2.3-billion through their own employee-giving…
By Holly Hall
Contributor