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GM-backed site connects donors, nonprofits.(Brief Article)
Crain's Detroit Business, December, 2000 by Serwach, Joseph
E-GM, General Motors Corp.'s e-commerce unit, is launching a Web site designed to boost charitable giving by bringing together the nation's nonprofits and potential donors. The site, WebHands.org, has already signed up close to 3,000 nonprofits nationwide and hopes to add far more. The site is initially focused on aiding nonprofits that provide food, clothing and literacy training as well as groups tackling homelessness or trying to minimize the digital divide, which leaves many poor people without computers or computer training.
The site will be linked to the high-traffic www.GM.com, which could potentially bring in thousands of new potential donors. Too many other dot-coms started by smaller companies are good ideas that are lost in the vast sea of dot-com...
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