Caringbridge.org - Websites To Connect Families

Wish to stay in touch with family and friends through important events in your, and their, lives? Then Caringbridge is the site for you. Providing a simple and free service, this site’s goal is to give a way for families and friends to support themselves, in an easy, accessible and free way, through a personalized website. The specific use destined for the sites is bringing hope and encouragement to people passing through a rough period. The site host nowadays over 64,000 sites, which have collected almost 412,000,000 visits in total. Caringbridge is a non profit organization, so its income comes, in its majority, directly from the thankful families which use their services, and a small fraction from healthcare sponsors. The people involved in the site work totally as sponsors, helping maintaining the site effective and 100% free.

“CaringBridge® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization offering free personalized Web sites to those wishing to stay in touch with family and friends during significant life events. Our mission is to bring together a global community of care powered by the love of family and friends in an easy, accessible and private way.”

Caringbridge offers a sensitive service for people undergoing difficult situations. The site is well organized, nice and elegant, which suits the whole purpose of the organization accurately.

If the site relies solely on their donors good faith, aren’t they at their constant mercy for the running of their site? Shouldn’t they at least have one important sponsor to sustain their organization?