[Kissntell]

This is basically a plea for someone to help redesign and recreate a webpage for Emerge, Inc, the company that employees me.

I work for a non-profit organization providing residential and vocational services to adults with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities. This organization is located in Maryland, USA which is known for its lack of funding to services providing support to individuals with disabilities.

The organization I work for has not received an increase in funding for inflation for the past 3 years. Its annual budget is close to $20 million and because it has not received inflationary increases in funding, the organization is looking at a $500,000 shortfall this year. This shortfall is almost all related to increases in the cost of heating homes, electricity (the state deregulated the price of the monopoly provider so prices doubled this year), gasoline for vehicles and even food price increases. This shortfall is not because of unfunded increases in salaries since salaries aren't being increased and people are being laid off, resulting in poor services for the people we are serving. The administrative costs are only about 10 per cent of the total budget which is rather outstanding for a charity of this type.

What I am attempting to convey is the fact that the company doesn't have the money to purchase a new site. The current one was designed by the CEO during his free time using a web page creator. The site is obviously utter crap and needs to be reworked. It should look as professional as the company is. Emerge is one of the leading service providers to people with disabilities in the state of Maryland.

If there is anyone who is at all interested please send me a PM. If you know anyone who might be interested or could do it as a school project for their portfolio, please send them the link to this page. If a true professional is willing to step up and do the work for cheap, I may be able to talk to my boss about getting some kind of funds for the website.

Now I'm off to learn Microsoft Access so I can try to completely redesign and recreate their database system, which was also designed and created by the CEO during his free time. Anyone know of any good Access tutorials? [surrender]