Youth developed web sites that provide a service to their

[Dan Bassill]

I think you probably could look at thousands of places on the Internet and
find "youth developed" web sites. That's because so many  young people are
populating the internet industries which are building web sites.

I think the better questions, is what services could youth provide.  The
answer I offer is

a) they could help organizations who are operating in isolation have a web
site that makes their story known 24/7 throughout the year

b) they could "maintain" this network, drawing visitors and resources to the
programs in each neighborhood

c) they could teach students in these community programs to be "web masters"
who keep the site update and full of rich content

There are so many agencies who do not know how to tell who they are, where
they are, what they do, why they are important and what they need.  Your team
could look at the best web sites throughout the internet and adopt good ideas
 into the web sites they build for neighborhood programs.

My organization works with tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. We're trying to
help them get volunteers, build programs, recruit and retain staff, and find
the dollars it takes to do all of this, and keep doing it better from year to
year.  We publish a Directory of tutor/mentor programs with contact
information. It has almost 370 listings.  On our web site we're building a
list of web links for these agencies, but less than 30 are listed and of
those many don't do a good job of telling their story. Of all of them, I'm
not sure how much traffic they generate.

If you could build web sites for five agencies a month, sixty would be
connected to the world and to each other at the end of a year.  In our case,
all 300 would have web sites within five years (or less).  Think of how much
that could do to help each of these agencies build quality organizations!

Good luck to you.

Dan Bassill
Cabrini Connections
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Chicago
www.tutormentorconnection.org

Dan Bassill
Cabrini Co

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