By NICOLE WALLACEPeninsula Habitat for Humanity is looking to provide low-income families with homes on the information superhighway. Working with Cisco Systems, the Menlo Park, Calif., chapter of Habitat for Humanity is wiring 36 town houses it is building in Redwood City for high-speed access to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Companies Merge Operations
By NICOLE WALLACEThe consolidation of companies that specialize in helping charities use the Internet is continuing. In recent months, a number of online-giving companies have gone out of business -- most notably Charitableway -- and several giving portals, including CharityCounts and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Software-Donation Program; Virus Vaccination Day
By NICOLE WALLACE The Microsoft Corporation will be accepting applications for its Technology Leadership Grant program through April 2. Since 1997, the program has awarded Microsoft software to help large nonprofit groups improve their communications and operations and to use the Internet to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spontaneous Campaign Reaps Charity Windfall
By NICOLE WALLACEPropelled by the Internet, a spontaneous fund-raising campaign raised more than $600,000 for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates. In the January 26 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the columnist Patt Morrison wrote that she planned to celebrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online-Giving Company to Cease Operations
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway -- one of the best-known and best-financed of the recent e-philanthropy ventures -- has announced that it is shutting down operations. ALSO SEE:The E-Philanthropy Revolution Is Here to StayFROM THE ARCHIVES:Internet Entrepreneur Tries to Bring Employee Giving On Line…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$13-Million Raised in On-the-Job Drives
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway, a company in San Carlos, Calif., managed 12 electronic on-the-job giving campaigns this fall that brought in a total of more than $13-million for charity. The campaigns -- administered for companies such as Agilent Technologies, the Hewlett-Packard Company, Morgan…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bush Transition Sparks Internet Campaign
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral progressive advocacy groups have launched a coordinated Internet campaign to voice their concerns about the Bush administration. For the first 100 days of the new administration, the TransitionWatch.org Web site and e-mail newsletter will feature news and action alerts from…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Group Seeks to Promote Online Giving
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization has been created to promote an environment in which contributors feel comfortable making gifts online. It also hopes to help charities use the Internet to strengthen their relationships with donors. As its first order of business, ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: The Community Collaborative Fund; Additions to TechSoup
By NICOLE WALLACE Verizon Communications has contributed the first $2.5-million of the $25-million it plans to give to the Community Collaborative Fund. The fund will award grants to California programs that bring information technology to the poor, as well as to members of minority groups and the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Domestic-Violence Victims Aided by Cell-Phone Drive
By NICOLE WALLACEThe wireless-telephone industry is deploying its products in the fight against domestic violence -- and asking the public to pitch in, too. Since 1996, the Call to Protect program has put 21,000 mobile phones in the hands of victims of domestic violence. The program is sponsored by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Technology Program Increases Grants to Charities
By NICOLE WALLACEThe U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program will award approximately $42.5-million in grants this year, up from $12.5-million in 2000. Started in 1994, the program awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to integrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Telecommunications Merger Leads to New Foundation
By NICOLE WALLACEThe day after America Online and Time Warner completed their merger, the new company announced that the AOL and Time Warner Foundations would be merging as well. The new AOL Time Warner Foundation will be based in New York and Dulles, Va. The fund will focus its giving in the areas…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
By NICOLE WALLACE The Benton Foundation has published a packet of resources, Public Media in the Digital Age, that discusses how communities are using public broadcasting, cable-access channels, and online community networks to strengthen education, social services, health care, and civic…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Financial Turbulence Hits Charity Sites
By NICOLE WALLACEInternet start-ups focusing on the nonprofit world have not been immune to the financial turbulence that has hit the high-tech industry. Two online giving portals have ceased operations. The founders of Shine, whose preview site went online in April, decided not to move forward…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Circuit Riders’ Travel to Spread the Gospel of Technology and Training
By STEPHEN G. GREENERosa María Ruiz spends much of her time in remote reaches of Bolivia’s ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
New Technology System Allows Arthritis Charity to Be Efficient and Flexible
By GRANT WILLIAMSThree years ago, the Arthritis Foundation realized it had a big decision ALSO SEE:Astride the Digital DivideNew Fund Exposes Charities to the Outer Limits of TechnologyTechnology Helps Small Environmental Group Get Big ResultsProgram Helps Charities Develop Savvy Plans for Getting…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor