Technology Bits: Foundation Center Adds Online Bookshelf

June 17, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

* The Foundation Center has added a new section to its Web site, the “Online Bookshelf,” which features abridged versions of some of the center’s books on non-profit management and foundations. The bookshelf also includes on-line quizzes that visitors can use to test their understanding of the texts. TO GET THERE: Go to http://fdncenter.org/onlib/bookshelf.

* Applied Business Services, a software company in Gaithersburg, Md., has announced that it will donate $1-million worth of accounting software to non-profit organizations in the Washington area that need to upgrade their software because of possible year-2000 problems. FOR APPLICATION GUIDELINES: Go to http://www.clientaccess.com/notforprofits.htm.

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.