Third Sector Connector Blog

Dear members, visitors, and early supporters -

Just a little more than two months ago, we put up the beta version of the “Nonprofit Local” website and, thanks to the early support of members like you, we’ve had more than 13,000 global visitors from more than 100 countries and our traffic numbers continue to grow every day.

As members began to join our site, we realized that we had an unexpected challenge which could also be an opportunity (see our blog posting back in October). Since then, our international base has continued to grow, with almost 18% of our site visitors coming from countries outside the U.S., many of whom don’t use the term “Nonprofit” for community benefit organizations, and instead use a variety of terms like “Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)” or “Civil Society Organizations.”Since the site was in “beta” and hadn’t officially launched, we still had the opportunity to be responsive and to encourage and acknowledge our global visitors. As a result, we will officially be moving out of our “beta” phase and launching this coming week, with a new name, “Third Sector Connector.”

Why “Third Sector Connector” you ask?

The nonprofit, voluntary, and community-benefit sector is considered to be the third sector in most countries, providing the necessary complement of services to the private (commercial) sector and the governmental sector. It is a term recognized not only in the U.S., but also in the UK, in Asia, and throughout the European continent. See Wikipedia for more. The “Connector” part of our new name demonstrates our continued commitment to connecting nonprofits and NGOs with high quality resources and information, with other organizations within local communities, and with like-minded organizations across the globe.

Thanks to all of you for your early support and for being our cheerleaders as we went through our beta phase. We are grateful to each and every one of you.

Warm regards,

Laura and Mark Deaton, Co-Founders

Third Sector Connector

http://www.ThirdSectorConnector.org

P.S. You’ll still see “Nonprofit Local” used in the Get Local section of our website as we roll out version 2.0 of our local community services in May, 2010.

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