Community Web is dedicated to making the neighborhood and local school a platform for activities in peoples' lives as well as giving these local institutions the tools required to protect their interests, utilize collective knowledge and assert economic and political power.

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PORTAL SITES ARE NOW FREE FOR ASSOCIATIONS WITH AT LEAST 200 MEMBERS OR 50% OF THEIR MEMBERS REGISTERED (AND NO ADS). CALL US TO CHECK YOUR STATUS AT 301 263 9821. FREE SITE INCLUDES THREE HELP DESK CALLS/MESSAGES. IMPROVE COMMUNICATIONS, EASE ADMIN HEADACHES, INCREASE COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND RAISE FUNDS FOR YOUR ASSOCIATION TODAY.

Current Number of Caring Community Members:   3,553
Current Number of Online Neighborhood or PTA Associations:   241

Since 1999, we have provided a VERY affordable, very powerful, interactive neighborhood or community website for a fraction of the cost of most website providers that is geared to VOLUNTEER organizations likes civic associations, parent teacher associations (PTAs), and community pools. The site is actually a fully functional site located within a portal. As a result, the site allows you to share information ONLY with your community, OR across the entire metro DC area via the portal. This creates powerful coalitions that can share resources to address various issues or needs. For example, several neighborhoods can contribute or share information on a proposed road through an area, keeping community residents in the loop or organizing to make changes. PTA groups can work on an issue on their own site, and then get other PTAs across the metro region to share successes or mobilize volunteers.

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Our goal is to link together as many geographically-oriented volunteer groups as possible and connect them to local resources. Other assets such as events, guides, useful links, consumer ratings, classifieds and others are also shared resources across the portal. Users can decide on their own what audience they feel comfortable addressing in most sections, from only their community to all users. These assets also help bring residents to the community site much more often than a standalone site.

The site is password protected and lets you choose to verify new users. This results in a high quality base of users interested in community affairs. The site also has separate user types for residents, officers, and financial managers or treasurers, with multiple protections for member data. No technical experience is needed as the websites are easy to use and manage, while still providing a lot of flexibility for advanced users. Powerful and easy to use tools for managing membership and producing directories are also included. As the network grows we are also making officer information (at his/her option) available to select government agencies (such as zoning and security) to make sure communities can be informed of important changes.

As we have done throughout our history, we continue to constantly add new functionality and features. This year we will improve our web editor to make it even easier to use and available to all browsers; improve our events page to include more events; improve digital picture uploading and sharing; and add several PTA modules. In 2006, we added CivicSearch to allow association officers to search all neighborhoods for in the portal for content that may help them with issues and ideas; PermitPost which gives permit notification when someone pulls a permit near you (Montgomery County); an interactive news page that allows users to post by geographic region; integration tags that allow existing sites hosted on our servers to incorporate our powerful functionality into their look and feel, along wth many other refinements. Finally, we are one of the few, if not only, community website provider that works for the community by negotiating discounts for services through our Group Buys, and donating part of our revenues to local groups. Your site can be up in minutes with all these tools at your fingertips.

Where can you:

• Meet neighbors and fellow school parents online in an atmosphere of trust on a password protected site?
• Keep in touch with your association and local civic, education and government groups?
• Organize community events?
• E-mail your community find a lost dog or get a baby sitter?
• E-mail your community from any computer with announcments and/or in case of emergency?
• Work with your neighbors as a powerful coalition for change?
• Get limited menu dinner delivered at unbeliveable prices?
• Pool the neighborhood's buying power to purchase a variety of home, auto and personal services at a discount?
• Get neighbors' opinions of home service companies?
• Start or join an email group in your area?
• Access local business at superior prices and in convenient ways?
• Find events, schools, daycare, party information, sports, arts and more for your kids.
• Use NeighborConnect to find neighbors with kids the same age, or adults with similar interests?
• Utilize the skills, abilities, knowledge, and experience of your residents to build a better community?

The answer is: Your Community Web Site.

How to get a site:

Community Web offers web sites to neighborhoods and their associations for $50/year, including domain name and $75/year for PTAs. We ask is that the association designate an editor(s) and make residents aware of the site. There is NO advertising on your private site or in your email, and access to the portal where there are some text listings can be restricted. Furthermore, you may choose the My Community page as the start page. We attempt to make money mainly by keeping a portion of what we save your residents, and we return a portion of that to the community via the association. Just email us at jnelson at communitywebinc dot com, or call us at 301-263-9821, and we can have your site up in no time. Click here for a sample site. If you'd like to see more, e-mail us for a password. (Currently serving parts of the metro DC area.)

Our mission is to make the community we live in a focal point in people's lives and friendships, and to pool our joint resources to make life more convenient, more reasonable, and more interesting.

If you are interested in licensing and operating Community Power software in an area outside of Washington, D.C., please e-mail us at the above address.