WEBSITES FOR ORGANIZATIONS

InterConnection's website donation program is no longer available. Advances in website design and web hosting have made it so easy for NGOs and non profits to create and update their own website that providing volunteers to do the work is not as necessary as it use to be.

Below are a list of online resources that can be used to build a website.

Web Design Resources

Free Website-building and Hosting Tools

Office Live: A service provided by Microsoft that offers powerful, yet simple design tools to make professional websites: smallbusiness.officelive.com

Webs: Make a free website. www.webs.com

Yola: Makes great-looking website for free. www.yola.com

Wet Paint: Create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks. www.wetpaint.com

Weebly: Videos, pictures, maps, and text are added by simply dragging them to your website. www.weebly.com

GoDaddy: Provides low-cost hosting, domain names, and websites. www.godaddy.com

Blogging Sites

Facebook: Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos. www.facebook.com

Blogger: Blogger is a free blog publishing tool for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. www.blogger.com/start

WordPress: WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. wordpress.org

Tumblr: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, or desktop www.tumblr.com

Photo Editing and Album Tools

PhotoBucket: Offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. www.photobucket.com

Flickr: Flickr is a way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. www.flickr.com

Picasa: Organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with friends, family & the world. www.picasaweb.google.com

Where to find Volunteers

Idealist: Post volunteer opportunities with your organization. www.idealist.org

VolunteerMatch: The most popular resource on the Internet for finding volunteers. Offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. www.volunteermatch.org

Networking & Non-profit Tools

Grassroots.org: Provides free capacity-building services for nonprofit organizations. Free services include web and graphic design, free hosting, language translation, SEO consultation, phone service, content filtering, and online marketplace. www.grassroots.org

TechSoup: Offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support. www.techsoup.org

Kabissa: : Kabissa exists to help African civil society organizations put information and communication technology (ICT) to work for the benefit of their communities. www.kabissa.org

Groundspring / Network for Good: Non-profits can access tools for fundraising, volunteer recruitment and donor communication, can receive free tips and training on topics including how to develop and improve their online marketing, communications and fundraising. www.networkforgood.org

FirstGiving: FirstGiving provides a suite of tools to nonprofits that empowers them and their supporters to raise more money online. www.firstgiving.com

Other helpful tools

Coffee Cup FTP: Free FTP client. It uploads and downloads files quickly and reliably. www.coffeecup.com/free-ftp/

KompoZer: A complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. www.kompozer.net

MyPodcast: Provides free software, which will help you record your podcast and allocate spots, where advertisement can be inserted. www.mypodcast.com

Free Graphics World: Royalty-free graphics www.freegraphicsworld.com