Meet The Wake County Autism Society
One of our recent additions to our servers at no charge through our non-profit program is the Wake County Autism Society.
The Wake County Autism Society (WCAS) is a nonprofit organization supported by volunteer board and committee members. They are an affiliate of the Autism Society of North Carolina (ASNC), which is an affiliate of the Autism Society of America (ASA). They work together to benefit individuals and their families affected by an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
We believe that individuals with an ASD can be productive members of our community or can grow through appropriate interventions and treatments so that they become productive members. In addition, we believe that the Wake County community can grow through acceptance of and interaction with individuals with differences to be a complete community that welcomes a diverse population.
Though we’re in Texas, we received an application from them that really reminded us why we absolutely love this program. In the field that we have asking the organization to answer why we should support them, we read:
We feel that we are an extremely progressive non-profit which is struggling under the weight of so many families begging for information concerning services and programs in our area. As you probably know, it truly is an epidemic, and the numbers of children being diagnosed is rising drastically. Please visit our current website to see what we do. Our current hosting service comes up for renewal in a month, and they are raising the rate on us. A truly ‘free’ hosting service would be a blessing.
I’m not sure why the raise in rates kind of “got me”, but I have to admit it did.
We actually shared some of this application with some friends in a discussion about why we choose to do this and how sometimes it really does just make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Interestingly, one of the friends we shared it with reminded us that we had another friend who lived in that area and also had a son with Autism. A quick email to her and we found out that friend had depended on WCAS for support in her own struggles - and yet that wasn’t how WCAS found us.
This friend also informed us that we had to give them free hosting, which thankfully, we had already decided to do or she may have reached through the Internet and slapped us around a bit.
This was one of those really neat stories that also just happened to demonstrate what an incredibly small world it really is.
Tags: non-profit
And this is one (of many) reasons why I continue to use draknet for my hosting. Draknet is NOT a Microslut company that wants money for everything that it does or provides. Draknet is a small company who has carved out their little chunk of the internets and is small enough that will let (almost) anyone come play in their little corner of the internets. IE, they spread the wealth around to others less fortunate then themselves.
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DrakNet replied on June 19th, 2008:
Heh. A microslut company? I’d never even heard of a microslut company.
I’m glad we’re not one, now that I heard of it!
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wolfwyndd on June 19th, 2008 at 2:50 pm