Hooray for IT support.
I’m willing to do many, many things to help raise money for pediatric cancer research and treatments. Donations? Of course. Bake sales? Absolutely. Volunteer coordination? Bring it on. Social media? You bet. Partnerships with great big companies? I can hardly sleep these days because I’m so excited about what is in store for us here at Cookies for Kids’ Cancer this fall.
But there is one key piece to the success of our online organization I just cannot bring myself to understand or take charge of - the inner workings of our website. The code. The platform. The logins. The online sales. I don’t want any part of understanding how the links and tabs work when I click them, I just want them to work.
And thanks to Volusion, the platform on which the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer website lives, I don’t have to take charge. You see Volusion offers our non-profit organization more than just a functional, versatile platform on which we can both communicate our brand and sell our cookies. Volusion offers us this platform free of charge, through the work of the Volusion Foundation’s Stores to Change the World program which provides IT support to eligible non-profits with full benefits and no cost.
Thanks to this program from Volusion, nearly every penny of our proceeds go directly in the hands of researchers who are innovating cutting-edge treatments in the world of pediatric cancer and not one penny is going to IT support. And since we don’t have to put a price tag on their often-used IT support, their help is truly priceless.
Read more about the Volusion Foundation, including the mention of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer in their blog last week, and see the difference they are making to us and other non-profits around the world.