Web-based philanthropy seeks lasting relationships

The internet did not just “speak” for Obama during the election race; it roared. The rest is history. It is a history, however, that validates what Ted Hart, CEO of the Hart Philanthropic Services Group, international consultant and speaker on nonprofit strategies, and author of six books on the subject, believed would be the case when, in 2000, he founded the group to develop the concept of raising funds online. “The internet,” Hart claimed at the time, “is going to drive fund raising.”