Technology Leaders Meet in Chicago
The Nonprofit Technology Conference, which drew 650 charity technology officials, consultants, and companies last year, will take place March 23-25 in Chicago. The meeting grew out of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network Roundup and the e-Philanthropy Conference, which were combined for the…
Computer Recycling Hits Many Obstacles
A new report, “Islands in the Wastestream,” analyzes the field of nonprofit computer refurbishers, the benefits of computer reuse, and the obstacles holding the field back. Published by CompuMentor, a technology charity in San Francisco, the report says nonprofit programs that refurbish discarded…
New Technology Coalition Shares Patented Approaches
A group of technology and consulting companies that work with nonprofit organizations has agreed to share any business procedures to which the companies hold exclusive rights. Members of the new Nonprofit Innovation Alliance have agreed to pool current and future “business-method patents” -- which…
Organizations With Ties to South Asia Pitch In With Fund-Raising Drives
Schools, religious congregations, community groups, and many other organizations across the United States are ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: Rebuilding Nature’s Ruin raising money and collecting supplies to help the victims of the South Asia tsunamis. Last week Leo Michael and two members of his church…
Innovation –Â and a Personal Touch –Â Get Priority at New Charities
The hundreds of thousands of charities created in the past decade cater to a vast array of social needs. ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity BoomPhoto Essay But most of the groups have at least one thing in common: founders who are passionate about their desire to pioneer new approaches and…
IRS Asks Organizations Seeking Charity Status to Supply More Details
As the number of groups seeking charity status has soared in the past decade, the Internal Revenue Service has struggled to keep up. More than 90,000 groups applied for charity status in 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, up from about 60,000 in 1993. Even though demand for…
Black-History Museums: Breaking Barriers
Nearly $1-billion in new projects is putting the spotlight on the role of African-Americans in the United StatesThe Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture resides in Baltimore’s bustling Inner ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity BoomBlack-History Museums: A…
Photo Essay: Innovation –Â and a Personal Touch –Â Get Priority at New Charities
ELIZABETH GRIVAS Benjamin Levy, who founded the Levy Dance Company in 2003, was named by Dance magazine to its “25 to watch” list. Critics have described his works as athletic and lyrical, brainy and sexy. Here, Cambria Garell, a dancer in Mr. Levy’s San Francisco troupe, strikes a pose.
Database of Listeners Aids Radio Station
Minnesota Public Radio is tapping into the power of the Internet to expand the network of people that its reporters turn to in their reporting. Over the last two years, the organization’s Public Insight Journalism program has built a database of 8,000 listeners, with information they provide such…
Pa. Arts Groups Get Technology Help
Arts and cultural organizations in the Philadelphia area have a new service to turn to for help in solving everyday technology problems. TechConnection for the Arts Help Desk offers arts groups 24-hour telephone assistance with their hardware and software questions. The service is provided by the…
Research Project Taps Free Computing Power
The World Community Grid, a new project started by the IBM Corporation, in Armonk, N.Y., aims to solve big social problems using relatively small amounts of donated computer power from millions of users. Through the project, computer users can donate their machines’ unused processing power for…
The Tech Museum of Innovation has presented its annual awards honoring the creative use of technology to benefit society in the areas of economic development, education, the environment, equality, and health. Among the winners, who received $50,000 each: International Development Enterprises, in…
Free Software Offered to Filter Out Spam
Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s giving copies of its spam-filtering software free to American and Canadian nonprofit organizations…
Colleges and Schools Send E-Mail Appeals
In a survey of college and private-school fund raisers, conducted by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, in Washington, about half of the 510 respondents said their institutions had started making annual-fund appeals via e-mail. The study found that e-mail solicitations still make…
Software Company Expands Its Reach
Kintera, a San Diego company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit organizations, has signed an agreement with Intuit to acquire American Fundware, which makes accounting software designed for charities and government agencies. Intuit, a Mountain View, Calif., company that produces…
Bits: Webby Awards Includes Best Charitable-Organization Web Site Category
The 2005 Webby Awards competition will include a new category for best charitable-organization Web site. The fee to submit an entry for consideration is $95, and the deadline is December 17. For more information: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com. On October 26, the Philanthropic Initiative, a…