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Networking & Generosity

January 22, 2010

My wife, Amy, works for an organization that we both love, International Teams.

Their main aim is,

Bringing People Together to Help the Oppressed.

To this end, they recruit, train, and mobilize people to serve on teams all around the world who are working to address some of the greatest challenges in the world today – things like urban poverty, human trafficking and slavery, and the needs of refugees.

On occasion, I have the opportunity to use some of my skills and abilities to help them out with small projects.  In a couple cases, they have asked me to help build websites for various events and communication needs.  This is something I enjoy doing, but by no means am I professional.  The platform I know best is Wordpress, so that is what I am inclined to use.  But, Wordpress is designed to be a blogging platform, not as a website builder per se.

So, what do you do when you’re doing work for a non-profit, but don’t have much of a budget to work with?  You look to network in the hopes of discovering people of generosity.

Two groups have come through big time!

iThemes, who builds premium Wordpress themes, was kind enough to donate their Flexx theme to assist in the creation of the sort of sites that I am looking to build.

A couple guys also got together and wrote a book called, “Digging into Wordpress.“  It’s a tremendous resource for those who are looking to get to know Wordpress from the inside out.  They were gracious enough to donate a PDF copy of their book.

For a networker like me, who loves to help other people out when he can, it’s a huge encouragement to receive the help of others when it’s needed.  If you are in the market for a stellar Wordpress theme be sure to visit the people at iThemes.  If you want to do some self-instructing in the world of Wordpress, this book, “Digging into Wordpress,” is a must have.

Thanks to both these groups for being generous with their products.

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