Site Tracks Servicesfor New York Charities
By Nicole Wallace Nonprofit organizations in New York City that are looking for fund-raising or management assistance have a new resource to which they can turn. The new Web site, Who Does What, features a searchable database of nonprofit groups that provide advice and consulting services to other…
Technology Capacity High Among L.A. Groups
By Nicole Wallace Most nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles County have access to basic information technology, according to a new study published by the Center for Nonprofit Management, in Los Angeles, and the UCLA Advanced Policy Institute. Nearly all -- 98 percent -- of the 381 charities that…
Web Site Aids Charities’ Accountability
By Nicole Wallace A new Web site helps nonprofit organizations identify ways they can earn and maintain their donors’ trust by improving their operations, being open about their finances and programs, and avoiding ethical conflicts. The site, called Pillars of Accountability in the Nonprofit World,…
Legal Guide on Internet Activities
A new book offers advice on how the laws and regulations that govern nonprofit organizations apply to charities’ activities on the Internet. The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law discusses such topics as Internet fund raising, online-donation acknowledgment, unrelated-business…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Archive Extends Access to Journals
A nonprofit organization in New York that was founded in 1995 to help college and university libraries deal with a space crunch in the stacks has expanded access to scholarly journals both in the United States and abroad. JSTOR, which got its start as a project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Manager for Dot-Org Domain
Come January a new organization will be managing the dot-org Internet domain that thousands of nonprofit organizations call home in cyberspace. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has selected the Internet Society, in Reston, Va., to succeed VeriSign as the domain’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: A Software Site Shuts Down; Popular Online Forum Is Revived; and iGive Gifts Top $1-Billion
The Nonprofit Software Index, a Web site that described software programs designed for charities, shut down last month “due to resource constraints.” The site had been maintained by William A. Kleintop, a professor at Seton Hall University. Marshall M. Burkes, Internet services administrator at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Source of Technology Help
Community technology centers, which originally were founded to provide technology access to people in low-income areas, have started to provide technology assistance to local nonprofit organizations, according to a new report published by the Community Technology Centers’ Network, in Cambridge,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundation Uses Internet to Help Hunger Groups
Alan Shawn Feinstein says that he will donate $5 to anti-hunger groups for each person who visits his foundation’s Help the Hungry Web site by the end of the year, up to a total of $1-million. Since 1998 the Feinstein Foundation, in Cranston, R.I., has given away $1-million each year to anti-hunger…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Program Awards $12.4-Million
The Technology Opportunities Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded grants totaling $12.4-million to 25 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative projects that demonstrate how information technology can be put…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Using Radar Technology to Track Migratory Birds
The same doppler-radar technology that meteorologists use to forecast the weather is helping the Nature Conservancy, in Arlington, Va., identify where songbirds rest during their migratory flights, thus indicating where the group should focus its conservation efforts to preserve the birds’ habitat.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Links Donors and Teachers
A New York charity is using the Internet to carry out its motto: “Every teacher a grant writer, every citizen a philanthropist.” DonorsChoose’s Web site matches donors with public-school teachers who have innovative ideas for student projects that aren’t covered by school funds. Charles Best, a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups, will hold two regional conferences this fall. The group will meet October 31-November 1 in Chicago, and November 19-20 in Boston.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Patent Example of Competition
Kintera, a company in San Diego that leases software that helps nonprofit organizations raise money online, has submitted 13 patent applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The company says it is only trying to protect its intellectual property. But some in the nonprofit world…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest’s revamped Web site features a list of election-year dos and don’ts for nonprofit organizations, examples of successful nonprofit lobbying efforts, and a new service that allows visitors to e-mail their advocacy questions to the Washington organization’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
E-Mail Promotion Powers Bikeathon
Riders who sign up for the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a two-day charity bikeathon, agree to raise at least $1,000 for cancer care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston. This summer participants in the August ride got an electronic boost for their fund-raising efforts.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor