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March i996 Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina Highlands Continued from page 4 manner.” The center, at 348 South Fifth St., will house the following agencies: Macon Program for Progress, Macon County Health Department, Macon County Department on Aging, Literacy Council of Highlands, Southeastern Community College, R.E.A.C.H. of Macon County, Educational Opportunity Center, Angel Community Hospitai Home Heaith, Macon County Sheriff’s Department, a senior citizens group from the First Presbyterian Church, and Highland-Cashiers Hospitai. The tenant Mst may expand. Among the services to be offered' at the center are a health clinic, adult-education classes, tutoring and career counseling. “It will eventually evolve into an all-pmT)ose community center with an emphasis on coordination among agencies,” deVille says. “Peopie in one agency can refer clients to other services they think could be helpful just down the hall.” In addition to the 11 initial agen cies, a central staff and trained vol unteers will refer cUents to services both in the building and elsewhere. “We want to eliminate the often confusing maze of processes and pieces of paper that people have to wade throu^ to get services,” deVille The new Peggy Crosby Community Service Center opened in February in Highlands to provide nonprofit agencies with a one- stop-shopping headquarters. says. Highlands residents Phihp and Peggy Crosby issued a $175,000 chal lenge grant toward the Hi^ands- Cashiers Hospital Foundation’s pur chase of the new center’s building. The Highlands Hospital vacated the building m March 1993. The Duke Endowment in Charlotte and the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable 'Trust in Winston-Salem each provided $125,000 for the reno vation. An additional $100,000 from the Duke Endowment supports the center’s first- and second-year oper ating costs. deVille, who also is executive director of the Literacy Council of Highlands, credits Erv Baumgardner, who serves on the board of the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation, for the vision that led to the Crosby Center. For information, call deVille at (704) 526-9938. Working group may form A nonprofit working group focus ing on telecommunications needs of nonprofits may soon be estabhshed, say Terry Grunwald, director of NCexChange. Grunwald has been talking with the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits and other groups about estabhshing the working group under the auspices of the North Carolina Information Hi^way, the state’s ini tiative to use hi^-speed information technology to improve education and economic development. Similar work ing groups have already been estab lished in areas such as K-12 educa tion and local government. Grunwald says the group would discuss such issues as how nonprof its might promote and market them selves using telecommunications, how to provide training and technical support for staffs, howto build strong content statewide for and about non profits, how to manage collaboration between nonprofits and other sec tors, and how to develop information sharing. No decision has been made about how or when the group will form. Far information, contact Grunwald at (919) 856-2176, or Trisha Lester, assistant director of the Center for Nonprofits, at (919) 571-0811. Nonprofit Internet training Madison County emication and nonprofit groups are tapping into the Internet through the work of Sam McKee, a grants administrator for Mars Hill College. More than 50 nonprofits have been put on-Une through McKee’s assistance. While some groups have computers, she says, they often lack experience using a modem or the Internet. She starts by training oiga- nizations to use e-mail and then introduces them to other aspects of the Internet such as newsgroups or information searches throng gopher or FTP. “The need is absolutely tremen dous because this is such a rural area,” she says. “Having this capabE- ity breaks down the barriers of com munication.” McKee, who recently tau^t an Internet access course for Duke University’s Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management, will give a similar program March 30 at the Western North Carolina Literacy Conference at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. 'The program is called “Scaling Mountains and BuUding Bridges: Resources for Rural Nonprofits.” McKee can be reached by e-mail at smckee@inhc.edu or by phone: (704) 689-1449. For information about the conference, call Amy Cipolla at (704) 251-6622. Recycling used computers 'The North Carolina Sierra Club is loaning refurbished computers to small groups who want to use its new bulletin board system to keep up with environmental news. Steve Lund, a Sierra Club volunteer coordinating the computer program, says that a 24-hour-a-day bulletin board system is now avaUable for North Carolina environmental groups whose mem bers want to post information or receive information about the envi ronment. The BBS can be reached at: (919) 233-9047. Groups are being encouraged to post their newsletters, action alerts and information about outings, says Lund. Organizations from outside the 'Trian^e can get special off-line soft ware that win enable them to down load or upload information onto the bulletin board system quickly and without incurring expensive phone charges. Lund says the club is seeking donations of computers, old or more recent models, which can be fixed up and loaned to other groups. Information about the program can be found through the N.C. Sierra Club’s home page: http://rtpnet.intercenter.net/—tsie rra/nc-home.htinl or by contacting Lund at (919) 481-1300. Tavemlse web site elands Pete Tavernise at Duke University continues to expand his involvement with nonprofit organizations and the Internet. Tavernise, coordinator for development at Duke’s school of engi neering, started with a Philanthropy Index, a Web site that indexed the growing nonprofit resources and homepages available over the Internet. Every couple of days 'Tavernise culls the Internet and its World Wide Web for new information about nonprofits and lists them at his page. He says he gets about five new listings every day “'nfings are really going up fast,” he says. His other activities include keep ing up a “Meta-index of Philanthropy Sites,” an index of other indexes that are tracking nonprofit and founda tion activity on the Internet, and judg ing “The Best of the Nonprofit Web Sites - 1996” for Impact On-line, a California-based nonprofit that assists nonprofits with using new technology. His home page can be found at: http://www.duke.edu/—ptavem/Pe te.Philanthropic.html. Tavernise also is advising an Atlanta organization that is specializ ing in developing Web sites for non profits and foundations. He can be reached by e-mail at: ptavem@acpub.duke.edu. Institute Continued from page 4 advocacy role for children. Additional funds are being sought from founda tions and other donors, with the money to be used for advocacy The three positions being elimi nated are executive vice president for operations, development director and assistant development director. “The administrative side is taking the hit, and the child advocacy side is being preserved,” says Sher, who plans to send a letter to institute sup porters to bring them up to date on plans for the organization. Todd Cohen Our special fundrais ing issue will be pub lished in June. Call (919) 899-3741 for information. J.D. 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