Our first Web for Good client: A Child’s Haven
Jonathan Pait
May11th
Topics: Community Involvement, Press Releases
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Web for Good is pleased to announce our first client.

After significant thought and deliberation, the Web for Good board has chosen A Child’s Haven for a pro bono project. A Child’s Haven is a Greenville based therapeutic and prevention center for developmentally delayed, abused, and neglected young children and their families. Their goal is to transform the lives of the entire family unit, so that they can proceed into the future, living healthy and productive lives. Here’s how we plan to help.

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Web for Good: Our Client Shortlist
Jonathan Pait
Apr29th
Topics: Company Culture, History and Philosophy, Web Design
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Look around you. Do you see anything that makes you
smile? Is there something you experienced today that encouraged you or motivated you? Those things didn’t just happen. If you recall, there was an action that brought you to that moment.

Here at Web for Good, we have enjoyed the opportunity to see a lot of good being done by multiple organizations across the country. These groups have seen a need in their communities and have acted. Now the time is near for us to help one of them better utilize the Web to carry out their mission.

We have narrowed the choices down to the following organizations:

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Worthwhile sponsors POA Cycling Team
Jonathan Pait
Apr12th
Topics: Community Involvement, Press Releases, Web Design
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The Worthwhile Company is proud to be a supporting sponsor of the Greenville, South Carolina based Palmetto Orthopaedic Associates Cycling Team. Known in the Southeast simply as POA, the team has made a name for itself in two years and is poised for even greater success in 2010. Worthwhile captures this success by providing the team with a website that conveys the drive and teamwork with which POA races.

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Business lessons from a field sprint
Jonathan Pait
Mar12th
Topics: Community Involvement, Company Culture
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It was exciting when two parts of my life came together. This year The Worthwhile Company is helping sponsor the Piedmont Orthopaedic Association Cycling Team — POA Cycling for short. The team has gotten off to a solid start and I’m glad to be both sponsor and racer.

2010 POA Cycling Team

For me it has been a learning situation and I have been amazed at how often lessons learned on the bike translate to real life — especially a competitive business environment. One such instance stood out to me in a recent race. It exposed for me a weakness on the bike that I also realized is something I need to overcome in my business life.

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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste
Jonathan Pait
Oct13th
Topics: Company Culture, History and Philosophy
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Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, caught a bit of grief earlier this year when he made the statement, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Of course, the reaction to that statement varies according to your political leanings. One thing we can all agree on is that we are facing an economic crisis. When it comes to your business, what are you doing about it?

Thinking about this question brought to mind an interview I read earlier this year in Fortune.  It was a question and answer session in a profile section on Jim Collins, author of Built to Last and Good to Great.  The title of the article was, “How Great Companies Turn Crisis Into Opportunity.”  It got me to thinking about how The Worthwhile Company is fairing during this time of economic upheaval.

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