Technology-related articles in this week’s Chronicle of Philanthropy

Google Offers Charities Free Software, Help

This article describes Google Apps, which are the Google Mail, Google Docs (word processing) and Google Spreadsheets.

Google Apps, which will be free t nonprofit organizations in the United States, includes e-mail and calendar programs, Internet-based telephone and text-messaging services, and word-processing, spreadsheet, and Web-publishing applications.

More at www.google.com/a/npo.

FCC Offers Educational Radio Licenses

For the first time in even years, the Federal Communications Commisssion in mid-October will accept applicaitons for new, full-power stations used for non-commercial, educational purposes.

More at http://radioforpeople.org