Online Ethics.A new foundation is staking a claim to be digital philanthropy's ethical champion. Headed by fundraising professional Ted Hart, ePhilanthropy-Foundation.org is creating tools designed to help nonprofits and donors make ethical, safe and private use of the Web for philanthropic purposes. New foundation developing rules Key aims of the foundation include promoting the best online practices for nonprofits and building trust in online giving among donors. The foundation has established a code of ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
The foundation will provide some services for free, while charging a modest fee for others. Board members are providing funding and services to support the foundation, which also will raise philanthropic support. Hart, the foundation's president and chief executive and senior partner at the Maryland fundraising firm Grand Stevens and Hart Groups, has assembled a board representing some of the digital-charity world's biggest dot-org and dot-com groups. "We Want to connect the dots," said Hart, former chief executive of the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
The foundation's board is chaired by Jimmie Afford, founder, chairman and chief executive of The Alford Group, a national fundraising firm based in Skokie, Ill. The board includes chief executives or senior officials of the American Association of Retired Persons' AARP AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to "enriching the experience of aging"; membership is open to people age 50 or older. Founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus as American Association of Retired Persons, AARP now has over 30 million Andrus Foundation, American Institute of Philanthropy The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) was created by Daniel Borochoff in 1992[1] to address the continuing need for thoughtful information regarding the financial efficiency, accountability, governance and fundraising practices of charities. , American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. , AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Foundation, Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Blackbaud, Changing Our World, Commerce One, donordigital, eContributor.com, eTapestry, GivingCapital.com, GuideStar, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants, MicroEdge, MyAssociation.com, Association of Fundraising Professionals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Target America, United Way of Tri-State (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) and Youth Service America Youth Service America, or YSA, is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally. . e-philanthropy ventures Industry talk continues that the AOL Foundation in Dulles, Va., may team up with a handful of other Internet players to develop broad e-philanthropy initiatives But, AOL would not comment on speculation about other possible new ventures. Officials of GuideStar in Williams-burg, Va., said the organization was in talks about merging with helping.org to create a new entity aimed at pulling together online resources for donors, volunteers, nonprofits and the philanthropic and commercial organizations that serve them. But, GuideStar has opted instead to focus on maintaining itself as a nonprofit entity providing online data about nonprofits for institutional users, such as financial services companies and state charity regulators. GuideStar CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Arthur "Buzz" Schmidt said that while he hopes to collaborate with any new entity involving the AOL Foundation's helping.org, GuideStar's priorities are to strengthen its data and technology while recruiting clients to license its services. "We think our organization really needs to keep its institutional focus to do its job very well," he said. By licensing its services and piggybacking Gaining access to a restricted communications channel by using the session another user already established. Piggybacking can be defeated by logging out before leaving a workstation or terminal or by initiating a protected mode, such as via a screensaver, that requires re-authentication on the marketing muscle of its customers, he said, GuideStar can roughly halve its annual budget of $12 million. GuideStar already has inked deals to license its services to America's Promise, Helping.org, Horizonguide.com, JustGive, Media Rights, Schwab Fund For Charitable Giving, and T Rowe Price. Blackbaud is retooling its business strategy. The Charleston, S.C., software marker is launching a series of new products, will consult on technology and fundraising-systems and plans to team up with other vendors serving the philanthropic market. Building on The Raiser's Edge, its main fundraising software, the 20-year-old company is developing a line of Web-based services, starting with NetDonors, an online-giving tool launched in August. Other Web tools will handle email campaigns, volunteerism, events and membership development. Blackbaud, which reports 12,000 customers and also makes accounting and education-administration software, also will add features to The Raiser's Edge designed to give high-level fundraising executives easier access to donor and gift data. The 700-employee firm also plans to help customers assess and plan their use of technology, and advise them on strengthening the business processes that support their fundraising operations. Short items "Philanthropy in the American Economy," a report by the Council of Economic Advisers, says e-philanthropy and lessons from venture capital, while still in their infancy, promise to boost giving and improve nonprofit efficiency ... The Communications Network, a nonprofit membership group in Washington, D.C., is getting $290,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, charitable organization devoted exclusively to health care issues. It was established in 1936 by Robert Wood Johnson (1893–1968), board chairman of the Johnson & Johnson medical products company. in Princeton, N.J., to build a Web site to give the foundation's grantees access to communications resources ... Nonprofit technology portal TechSoup has joined industry tech portal CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , both in San Francisco, to expand the delivery of tech information to nonprofits ... A phone survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in Washington, D.C., finds 55 percent of Americans online use the Web to find medical information, and 47 percent of those seeking health information for themselves rely on it for treatment and dealing with doctors. Todd Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. is editor and publisher of Nonprofitxpress, an online newspaper at www.npxpress.com. |
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