Multimillion-Dollar Gift Pledged Online
By NICOLE WALLACEA Baltimore lawyer has pledged $2.5-million to United Cerebral Palsy over four years -- and he plans to donate the entire amount through the organization’s Web site. On May 15 at the National Press Club, in Washington, Stephen L. Snyder used his credit card to make the first…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Gifts Boost Comics’ Charity Act
By NICOLE WALLACEA charity in the United Kingdom founded by comedians combined star power, whimsy, and a good cause to raise £50-million, or more than $70-million -- with £3.6-million, or more than $5-million, coming in online. Every two years, as part of its Red Nose Day campaign, Comic Relief…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: A Technology-Assistance Group Expands Support; Grants for Internet Access
By NICOLE WALLACE CompuMentor, in San Francisco, has received more than $350,000 in new grants for its TechSoup Web site from the AOL Time Warner Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Microsoft Corporation, the Morino Institute, and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. TechSoup…
Nonprofit Online Activities Surveyed in 2 Reports
By NICOLE WALLACETwo new reports published by foundations survey the nonprofit information-technology landscape. Published by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Mich., “e-Philanthropy v.2.001: From Entrepreneurial Adventure to an Online Community” provides a snapshot of online…
Foundation Site Hit by Pro-China Hackers
By NICOLE WALLACEEarly this month a prominent American foundation found its Web site the target of pro-China hackers angry about the mid-air collision of an American surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet. When employees of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago,…
Charities Could Gain From Cisco Layoffs
By NICOLE WALLACEAt a time when many charities are worried that decreased earnings and turbulence in the stock market will dampen corporate philanthropy, organizations in Silicon Valley are poised to benefit from layoffs at Cisco Systems. Last month, Cisco announced that it was eliminating 8,500…
Online Newsletters Offer Technology Advice
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral new electronic newsletters offer charities free advice about how to use information technology in their work and in their fund raising. Published monthly by two nonprofit technology consultants, Marc Osten and Michael Stein, Dot Org offers charities advice on how to use…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bay Area Collaboration to Help Charities
By NICOLE WALLACECompuMentor and the Management Center, two San Francisco organizations that provide technology assistance to other nonprofit groups, have announced a partnership in which they will work together to help charities develop and carry out strategic technology plans. Each organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Antismoking Site Turns For-Profit
By NICOLE WALLACEA Boston public-health charity is spinning off its online smoking-prevention program as a for-profit company. Since its creation in 1995, QuitNet has provided information and support to people who are trying to break their dependence on nicotine. The site was started as a project…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Awards Program Suspended; Dot-Com Philanthropy Ventures Parodied
By NICOLE WALLACE On April 2, Ericsson, a Stockholm telecommunications company, announced the third annual Ericsson Internet Community Awards, or ERICA, which were to have awarded $500,000 in Web development services and equipment to charities with innovative technology ideas. But the program has…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundations Urge Creation of ‘Digital Trust’
By NICOLE WALLACEA new report calls for the creation of a national trust to promote the innovative use of information technology in education. “A Digital Gift to the Nation,” published by the Century Foundation, recommends that the federal government use the proceeds from the auction of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Civic-Action Groups Benefit From Dot-Com Decline
By NICOLE WALLACEElection season may be over, but the deal making hasn’t slowed for organizations that use the Internet to educate voters and encourage citizens to participate in the political process. Two charities have been the beneficiaries of failed dot-com political portals, and two others…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Provides Data on Electronic Drives
By HARVY LIPMANCalifornia’s annual report on commercial solicitors for the first time this year provides information on Internet fund-raising campaigns. The report lists 66 online campaigns, all conducted by Charitableway, an Internet fund-raising company, in San Carlos, Calif., that recently…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Environmental Groups Offered Internet Tools
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization is building Internet-based tools to help environmental organizations work together to improve their communications efforts. Green Media Toolshed, in Washington, provides its members with a directory of more than 230,000 press contacts in the United States and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Online Option for United Ways
By NICOLE WALLACEA consortium of local United Ways has entered the electronic workplace-giving fray. For the forthcoming fall campaign season, participating United Ways will be able to use the United eWay.org system to work with companies to design customized Web sites that employees can use to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Advocates Put the Web to Work
By NICOLE WALLACEFor several years charities have been using the Internet in their advocacy work on causes like the environment and human rights. Now a coalition of organizations is harnessing the power of the Internet on behalf of policy issues that affect the nonprofit world. A project of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor