# Helping.org becomes Network for Good

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/11/26/helpingorg-becomes-network-good/
- Published: 2001-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Helping.org is transformed into online philanthropy portal with help from companies
and foundations.
A coalition of companies, nonprofit foundations and associations
have relaunched the philanthropy resource Helping.org as “Network for Good.” It 
aims to help charities

 

 

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strengthen their connections with people seeking to donate, volunteer or speak out.

 

 

 

 

Network for Good is an independent, 501(c)(3) organisation. It was founded and funded
by AOL Time Warner Foundation and AOL, Inc.; the Cisco Foundation and Cisco Systems,
Inc.; and Yahoo!, in partnership with over 20

 

 

non-profit foundations and associations.

 

 

 

 

It builds on the success of Helping.org, the first ePhilanthropy initiative of the
AOL Time Warner

 

 

Foundation. In two years, it delivered $20 million in contributions and 175,000 
volunteers to non-profit organisations in the USA.

 

 

 

 

The Web site aggregates and organises content and

 

 

resources, making them available in one “comprehensive, easy-to-use destination.”

 

 

 

 

Visitors will be able to explore and give to the nearly

 

 

850,000 charities in the Guidestar database, and 100% of their donation will be 
credited to the charity. Network for Good says that it will subsidise the transaction
and credit card costs of all donations.

 

 

 

 

Visitors will be able to explore a database of tens of thousands of volunteer opportunities
provided by VolunteerMatch, helping community service organizations throughout the
USA recruit volunteers.

 

 

 

 

Visitors will also be encouraged and assisted in campaigning online. They will find
a search option to locate and communicate with an elected official or media contact,
information on steps to becoming an online activist, and additional resources to
contact to further pursue personal interests.

 

 

 

 

Network for Good is also designed to help charities become more accountable and 
help donors make more informed giving decisions by providing critical information
about each charity, such as descriptions of programmes, financial information, ratios
of administrative costs to programmes and

 

 

boards of directors.

 

 

 

 

Steve Case, Chairman of AOL Time Warner, said: “Network for Good represents an unprecedented
alliance of industry and nonprofit leaders. By combining the passion, expertise 
and grass-roots affiliations of our nonprofit partners and the reach, resources 
and Internet capabilities of our corporate founders, we will be able to make giving,
volunteering and speaking out on issues as central a part of the Internet as shopping
or getting e-mail.”

 

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