AGENCY.COM Fulfills On-Line Wish for The Make-A-Wish Foundation; Company's Sponsorship and Web Design Help Raise Money for Children with Life Threatening Illnesses.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001 AGENCY.COM (Nasdaq: ACOM (language) ACOM - An early system on the IBM 705. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. ), a leading e-business builder in global markets, today announced that the company is donating its expertise and services to create a website for Wish Night 2001, the signature fundraising
AGENCY.COM is a special co-sponsor of the April 21st Wish Night 2001 gala, a black tie evening of dinner, dancing and fundraising. A team of eight people from the Company's Dallas office worked with Wish Night and the North Texas Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) to produce the site for Wish Night 2001 (www.wishnight.org). Visitors are able to make reservations on-line, register for the auction, sign up to volunteer and learn more about the event. The site will recognize sponsors and individual volunteers as well as showcase selected auction items for Wish Night. "Our goals for the Wish Night 2001 site were to increase the number of reservations, inform and educate visitors about the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R), and to help facilitate the processes surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the event," said Don Scales, Regional President of AGENCY.COM: Dallas. "AGENCY.COM is dedicated to putting interactive technologies to work to help Make-A-Wish grant wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses." "In the world of non-profit it is cutting edge to have a whole site dedicated to a gala," said Jenny Wolf Jenny Wolf, born January 31, 1979 in Berlin, is a German ice speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 37.04 seconds, for the women's 500 m in long track speed skating. , founder of Wish Night. "AGENCY.COM's efforts are helping us make this year's Wish Night the most successful ever." AGENCY.COM worked in partnership with Dallas-based hosting company BlueToaster to host the Wish Night site, which launched in late January. AGENCY.COM has a long history of working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R). Last November i-traffic, the Company's interactive marketing division, created and promoted a holiday Internet banner ad A graphic image used on Web sites to advertise a product or service. Banner ads come in numerous sizes, but are often rectangles 460 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. Also 460 x 55 and 392 x 72 sizes are commonly used. campaign to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) during the 2000 holiday season. About Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) The Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. It is the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 80 chapters in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and its territories and 20 international affiliates spanning five continents. This year marks 20 years of granting wishes to more than 80,000 children around the world. For more information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R), please call (800) 722-9474, or visit the Foundation's Web site at www.wish.org. About AGENCY.COM AGENCY.COM is a leading e-business builder in global markets. The company provides strategy, branding and technology services that help its clients build and grow their interactive business across multiple digital channels - the Web, wireless and interactive television. Founded in January 1995, AGENCY.COM is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and has offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, London, Paris, Portland (OR), San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Woodbridge (NJ) and affiliate offices in Miami (FL), Seoul, Korea and Singapore. Matters discussed in this release may include forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be materially different. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from anticipated events or results include risk factors and other items that are contained in AGENCY.COM's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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