Technology Bits: Board Listings and an Effort to Close the “Digital Divide”
* BoardClassifieds, a new Web site, lists available trustee positions at non-profit organizations in the San Francisco area and allows candidates to submit their applications on line. The Web site is run by the Volunteer Center of San Francisco and the Support Center for Nonprofit Management/NDC,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Software Helps Charities With Virtual ‘Shopping Malls’
New software gives non-profit organizations more control over their on-line “shopping malls” -- sites through which charities collect a percentage of the money that consumers spend on various products. Shop2Give, a Los Angeles company that sponsors its own site to raise money for charities, also…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Non-Profit Managers Offered On-Line Advice
A new Web site, InnoNet’s Workstation for Innovative Nonprofits, offers planning and evaluation help for charities. The Web site features interactive work sheets that non-profit staff members can use to design new programs and evaluation procedures. Later this fall, users will also be able to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Goodwill Creates On-Line Auction Site
Shoppers who scour their local Goodwill for hidden treasures now have another place to search -- the Internet. Goodwill Industries of Orange County, in Santa Ana, Cal., has set up an on-line auction site to sell valuable and unusual items it has received as donations. The site was built by Kruzin…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Red Cross Sees Jump in Internet Donations
The American Red Cross has seen on-line donations soar during the past year. The organization estimates that it received $2.5-million in Internet contributions from July 1998 through June 1999. Only $172,000 was collected on line during the same period the previous year. The American Red Cross says…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Census Struggles to Get Accurate Count of a Key Group: Charity Workers
In the 1990 Census, some 1.1 million Latinos weren’t counted. ALSO SEE:Counting on Charities Some 2 million children were missed. And, researchers say, some 1.6 million non-profit workers were overlooked as well. While many charities have been working to insure that the people they serve aren’t…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Census Bureau uses non-profit help to recruit workers, promote tally Kenneth Prewitt has spent much of his life in the philanthropic world -- ALSO SEE:Census Struggles to Get Accurate Count of a Key Group: Charity Workers both as a grant maker at the Rockefeller Foundation and as the leader of…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
AARP Services (Washington): Appointed Suzanne Cox, vice-president for marketing at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be director of marketing services, and Roberta J. Milman, chief executive officer of Georgetown U. Medical Center’s Physician Network (Washington) and the center’s director of…
IRS Promises to Publish More Advice for Charities
The Internal Revenue Service expects to soon end a “lull in publication” of advice explaining how it interprets and applies federal laws that govern non-profit groups, says Marc Owens, director of the revenue service’s Exempt Organizations Division. In a speech at the American Bar Association’s…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
Congressional Panel Urges Stiffer Penalties for Trusts
Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation is recommending that lawmakers both clarify the law and stiffen the penalties applying to charitable remainder trusts that fail to file annual informational returns. The suggestion is contained in a report issued by the Joint Committee, which reviewed penalty…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Bits: Community Foundation Directory; a Guide to the Year-2000 Problem
* The Community Foundation Locator, a new directory on the Council on Foundations’ Web site, lists more than 300 community foundations in the United States, with links to those foundations that operate Web sites. The site also includes information on community foundations in Australia, Canada,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Free Fax Service Offered to Charities
A new program allows charities to send free fax messages to large numbers of people by using the Internet -- and bypassing expensive long-distance telephone lines. Fax4Free.com is a Los Angeles company that allows people to use the Internet to send and receive free fax messages within the United…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
State Solicitation Rules Posted on the Internet
Fund raisers can turn to a new on-line compendium to check charitable-solicitations requirements in the 50 states. Raffa & Associates, an accounting firm in Washington, has added a section to its Web site that explains registration requirements for charities that want to solicit residents of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Non-Profit Internet Pioneer Changes Course
The Institute for Global Communications is getting out of the business of providing Internet-access services to focus on developing its Web sites and providing Internet training and consulting to activists and non-profit organizations. A project of the Tides Foundation, in San Francisco, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
On-Line Shopping Site Offers Deductions to Donors
An on-line charity shopping site, iGive.com, has made changes in the way it processes purchases and donations -- mainly in the hopes that doing so will allow customers to take a tax deduction for the portion of their purchases that are donated to charitable organizations. The iGive.com company, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor