Web Site Gives Donors Data on Charities
Donors in Kansas City, Mo., can go to a new Web site to learn more about local charities — and to make online donations. DonorEdge provides profiles of more than 600 nonprofit organizations, detailing the groups’ missions, programs, management, and financial data. The Greater Kansas City Community…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
AT&T Donates Technology, Internet Service to Poor
AT&T has announced that it will provide free or discounted technology equipment and free Internet service to 50,000 low-income households over the next three years. The One Economy Corporation, a nonprofit group in Washington dedicated to providing poor families with access to Internet technology,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity E-Mail Messsages Snagged by Spam Filters
A study of nearly 1,000 e-mail messages sent by 28 nonprofit organizations and political groups over a two-month period found that 24 percent of the messages did not make it to the e-mail boxes of the people who requested them. The finding is roughly the same as last year’s study, in which 27…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Helps Charities Track Product Inventories
The Aidmatrix Foundation, in Dallas, has built technology systems linking companies that have surplus products with charities that can put those supplies to good use. The organization’s software also helps charities track their supplies internally. The fees that charities pay for the technology…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
For charities formed in response to the terrorist attacks, doing good means facing challengesThe September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks left more than grief and mourning in their aftermath. ALSO SEE:Special Report: Renewal and ReckoningArticle: Windows of Hope: Mission Accomplished, a Nonprofit…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
The legacy and lessons of charity’s response to September 11: A Special Report:
A Former Department Store Now Houses Charities
Hurricane Katrina sent five feet of putrid water spilling into the offices of My House Center for Learning, a ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed New Orleans charity that serves troubled youngsters. Faced with the moldy, uninhabitable mess, My House Center turned into a…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
By Nicole Wallace The National Center for Law and Economic Justice — formerly known as the Welfare Law Center — plans to end its Low Income Networking and Communications Project in August because of a lack of money. Since its founding in 1998, the LINC Project has helped grass-roots antipoverty…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lobbying Groups Fear a Move in Congress
By Nicole WallaceTwo coalitions of advocacy groups and technology companies are fighting a new move that threatens nonprofit organizations’ ability to conduct e-mail campaigns. The House Chief Administrative Officer has made software available to members of Congress that requires visitors to their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Video Games Play Budding Role in Touting Charity Work
DISPATCHES By Ian Wilhelm Stacey Peña leads a truck convoy filled with rice and beans through a white desert, hoping the rough terrain doesn’t puncture a tire. She scouts ahead for broken bridges and land mines as she tries to reach a refugee camp filled with starving people who have fled their…
Bits: Katrin Verclas Appointed Executive Director Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
The Community Technology Centers’ Network will hold its 15th annual conference in Washington July 27-29. The meeting will highlight the history of and changes and innovations in the field of community technology. For more information: Go to http://www.ctcnet.org. Katrin Verclas has been appointed…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Mass. Company Adds Online Fund-Raising Service
For the past 17 years, the Target Analysis Group has analyzed and compared direct-mail fund-raising data for charities to show them how they fared relative to other organizations. Now, the Cambridge, Mass., company is incorporating online fund-raising into its analysis. Target expects 12 to 15…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Urged to Monitor Congress Internet Debate
A contentious debate about how to regulate the Internet, now before Congress, is full of technical jargon and confusing dueling slogans, such as “Hands Off the Internet” and “Save the Internet.” But media-policy experts are urging charities not to tune it out, because the outcome could have a major…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
More graduate students are gaining hands-on experience while providing free services to charities Matt Forti would like to run a nonprofit group one day. But for now he must content himself with helping to manage organizations run by others. Fortunately for Mr. Forti, 27, a graduate student at…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
By Nicole Wallace American Humanics has released a new bibliography and literature review entitled “Workforce Issues in the Nonprofit Sector: Generational Leadership Change and Diversity.” It is available in the Initiative for Nonprofit Sector Careers section of the organization’s Web site, under…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Topic of Grant-Maker Seminar
By Nicole WallaceThe Innovation Funders Network plans to hold a conference call for grant makers on “net neutrality” on June 9. The concept of net neutrality refers to the practice of handling all data traveling over the Internet in the same way, no matter which companies’ networks deliver it.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor