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Charities Get Free Help in Building Web Sites

December 2, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

A free Web publishing service allows non-profit organizations — and their local affiliates — to create Web sites quickly and without having to know any Internet programming language.

Charities can go to WeGo.com and build their own Web sites by filling in templates that the Palo Alto, Cal., company has created. In addition to building static Web pages, groups can also add interactive features to their sites, such as on-line calendars, e-mail discussion lists, and chat rooms.

Groups that already operate their own Web sites can add features from WeGo.com.

The company was founded by two recent graduates of Harvard Business School and two computer engineers. Anjai Gandhi, one of the founders, believes that the service will improve the way charities use technology by making it easier for them to update their sites, communicate with their members, and help their affiliates get on line.

In December, WeGo.com will add an on-line shopping mall and will split commissions earned there with participating charities. Another source of revenue for the company will be the sale of its Web publishing technology to other businesses for use in creating sites for businesses to use for their internal communications.


WeGo.com soon plans to introduce new features that will allow charities to accept on-line donations and dues payments.

To get there: Go to http://www.wego.com.

About the Author

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.