Updates

Wealthy people stepping up their online gifts, study finds

Cellphone campaigns get increased attention from charities

Elsewhere Online

Two nonprofit film organizations merge

Pitch to charities from television company raises questions

More links

Technology News

Monitoring Donors
A new fund-raising product prompts concerns about donors' privacy rights.

Staying Private
Convio, a software provider to charities, has decided not to go public due to concerns about the stock market.

Donor Views
The U. of Pennsylvania uses a simple technique to find out what is in the minds of its contributors.

Virtual Museum
An online museum offers an archive of fund-raising materials.

Winning Attention
A new Internet service is helping charities get exposure on popular sites run by newspapers and television stations.

Wish List
The charity Kiva inspired a Michigan hospital to offer a new and effective way to attract donations.

Changing the Courts
Sandra Day O'Connor, the former Supreme Court justice, helped create a video game to teach young people about the judicial system.

Online Giving
Donations raised via the Internet grew by a median of 42 percent last year at the nation's biggest charities, according to a new Chronicle survey.

Seeking Big Donations
Nonprofit groups are increasingly turning online to raise large gifts.

Campaign Lessons
Candidates for the White House are raising a lot of money online — and their approaches could help charities.

Charity Auctions
EBay has started a campaign to raise money for good causes.

E-Mail Clutter
The percentage of people who opened or responded to e-mail messages sent by charities dropped in 2007.

Charity Blogs
Only a small share of charity supporters use blogs and other social-networking tools to keep up with groups they're interested in.

What Wealthy Donors Want
Affluent people increasingly plan to make big gifts online, but many of the tactics charities use turn them off, a new study finds.