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Posted by: laurakujawski on Thursday, April 14, 2005

It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes hundreds of student volunteers to raise Web sites for community-based nonprofits as part of The Art Institutes' Annual National Webraising event.

To help celebrate National Volunteer Month, interactive media design students from Art Institutes across the U.S. will raise Web sites for nonprofit organizations and go live with launches on Monday, April 18, 2005.

Art Institutes participating in this year's event include schools located in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brookline, MA, Phoenix, Portland, Dallas, Orange County, CA, San Diego and York, PA.

Based on the Amish concept of a barnraising, a Webraising demonstrates the power of neighbor helping neighbor as students aid local, community-based nonprofit organizations by creating Web sites, or in some cases, re-launching existing sites to improve appearance and function."