High-Tech Hopes Meet Reality

Slow start for online giving leads to new Internet approaches

More than a dozen Internet companies that served nonprofit groups have gone out of business. High-technology donors whom many charities had been wooing for major gifts have sustained major stock losses. Virtually no charity has persuaded more than a tiny share of its donors to give online.

Such developments have prompted the philanthropic world to take an increasingly sober view of the Internet's influence on its