A web site can become a powerful way to deliver services for those organizations in the business of providing people with information. For example, Precious In HIS Sight, an organization that helps place children from around the world in adoptive homes, fulfills its mission primarily online through its Internet Adoption Photolistings . Here, visitors to this site may view pictures of children looking for adoption, detailed descriptions of each child, information on adoption agencies and adoption issues, as well as related resources. To mobilize people around an issue, an organization must get the word out quickly and provide people with convenient tools for responding. Because it's so easy to update a web site and have the vital details available instantaneously, the web is a perfect way to encourage people to act on issues that greatly concern them.
Children Now takes advantage of the web's power to mobilize support through timely action alerts.
It's easy to respond to a call for action when one can email one's legislative representatives. Children Now also has a nice directory of links to other volunteer bulletin boards on the Internet. Research Research may take many forms. An organization may wish to keep up with legal, political, scientific or other mission related developments. Alternatively, it may wish to learn about grant getting opportunities.