Bits: KickStart.com Shuts Down
By NICOLE WALLACE KickStart.com, a Web site that allowed shoppers to designate a portion of their online purchases to charity, discontinued its service August 10. In an e-mail message sent to people who had registered with the site, the Denver company said: “The ability of Internet companies to…
World War II Memories Captured on Web Site
By NICOLE WALLACEA San Francisco charity has created a Web site that allows people who lived through World War II to share their memories of that time -- with one another and with younger generations. The Ameritech World War II Living Memorial is a project of SeniorNet, an organization that teaches…
Online News Service Helps Charities
By NICOLE WALLACEAScribe, a news wire dedicated to distributing press releases from non-profit organizations, hopes to help charities reach both traditional and online news organizations. More than 50 daily and weekly publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week, and…
$6-Million for Grants to Close ‘Digital Divide’
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Community Technology Foundation of California has awarded $6.2-million in its inaugural round of grant making. The San Francisco fund awarded the money to 86 California charities to help bring the benefits of information technology to poor people, members of minority groups,…
Family-Planning Campaign Makes Use of Internet
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Internet plays a central role in a new campaign to raise awareness about international family planning. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, in Los Altos, Calif., is working with several non-profit organizations -- including CARE, the National Audubon Society, and…
World Leaders Seek to Bridge Digital Divide
By NICOLE WALLACEGovernments, grant makers, corporations, and non-profit organizations are turning their attention from the domestic to the global digital divide. The gap between technology use in North America and Western Europe and in the rest of the world was on the agenda at last month’s G-8…
2 Groups Release Protocols for Data on Donations
By NICOLE WALLACEThe issue of data standards for the non-profit world is heating up. Two for-profit organizations have released non-profit data-exchange protocols. The protocols are specifications for formatting data about charitable donations so that information about gifts can move easily between…
Bits: Charitableway.com to Buy Charitygift; and List on Charity Business Ventures
By NICOLE WALLACE Charitableway.com (http://www.charitableway.com), a San Carlos, Calif., company that helps other companies put their employee-giving programs online, has signed an agreement to buy Charitygift (http://www.charitygift.com). Charitygift, which under the terms of the deal will…
Program Helps Charities Shape Technology Plans
Wired for Good is helping charities in the Silicon Valley develop sound technology plans. Non-profit groups go through a stringent application process to participate in the program, which is run by the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, in San Jose, Calif. Charities that are chosen for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Aids Access to Disability-Rights Exhibit
By NICOLE WALLACEThe National Museum of American History, in Washington, is using technology to make its new exhibit on the disability-rights movement accessible to people with disabilities. Located next to a powerful symbol of the civil-rights movement -- a section of the lunch counter from the…
Seattle Charity Sponsors Mobile Computer Lab
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Boys & Girls Club of King County is giving the Good Humor man a run for his money this summer. The organization, based in Seattle, is sending its Techmobile -- a mobile computer lab housed in a converted Winnebago -- out on the road to introduce children in the county’s poor…