Technology Bits: Foundation Online Tools Promoted

November 17, 2013

“After the Leap” is a two-day conference that will discuss how charities can measure the impact of their work and use data to improve programs. The meeting will take place December 3-4 in Washington and is sponsored by PerformWell and Venture Philanthropy Partners. For more information: Go to aftertheleap.org.

A new report by the Foundation Center and Monitor Institute describes a wide array of online tools that foundations can use to work together. An accompanying interactive tool finder sorts the technologies by task, such as project management and file sharing. For more information: Go to collaboration.grantcraft.org.

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.