Ants.com and Bergen Highlands/Ramsey Rotary Club Work to Benefit Gift of Life; Referral Revenues for Professional Service Auction to Support Local Rotarian Charity.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2000 Ants Ants See also insects. formicary, formicarium the dwelling of a colony of ants, as an anthill or nest. formication a body sensation that feels as if ants are crawling over the skin. .com, the fastest growing marketplace on the Internet for freelance work freelance work free n → freiberufliche Arbeit f , announced today a plan to donate referral revenues from the popular freelance job search site to the Bergen Highlands/Ramsey Rotary Rotary can refer to:
Independent professionals who sign up as members of the Ants.com community using the member number of the Bergen Highlands Rotary Club will automatically generate referral revenues to be donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. by Ants.com to the Gift of Life program each time they successfully complete a contract on the site. Employers who post projects on the Ants.com site will also generate donations to the program each time they outsource projects successfully. The idea for donating referral revenues to the Gift of Life program arose after a speech given by Ants.com founder Jason Carmel to the Bergen Highlands Rotary Club on May 14. "I spoke to the Rotary Club about tips on making a smart transfer to online business," said Carmel. "The Rotary members are perfect partners for the outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. and freelance opportunities made available at Ants.com. They are a community-driven organization with strong civic ties and a great professional network. I am thrilled that Ants.com can partner with the Rotarians to benefit a great program like the Gift of Life." The Gift of Life program brings children from developing nations to 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. for life-saving medical procedures. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bob Baron and Bill Dator, co-chairs of the club's Gift of Life Program, the Bergen Highlands Rotary Club has sponsored successful heart surgery operations for 11 children from places like Poland, Trinidad, Ukraine, Russia, and Korea in the past eight years. "Ants.com offers a fantastic service to our members in their professional capacities and is generously assisting us in our support of a worthwhile program to help sick children," said Baron. "We couldn't be happier with the arrangement." The member number for the Bergen Highlands Rotary Club is 88868384. New registrants who enter this number when they register on the Ants.com web site will automatically donate any referral revenues they generate from work outsourced or performed through the site. The program is similar to one brokered earlier this year between Ants.com and Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed to benefit animal welfare services. For complete details about referral networks, please refer to the Ants.com web site. About Ants.com With over 30,000 members and more than 30 categories of job descriptions, Ants.com is the fastest growing freelance marketplace on the web today, expanding at a rate of more than 1% per day. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, Ants.com is intent on creating a liquid marketplace for the trillion-dollar worldwide freelance services market. Companies looking to outsource business projects -- from programming and web design to marketing -- can quickly meet their needs at Ants.com, drawing from the largest pool of qualified freelancers and independent professionals in the world. Ants.com, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is backed by Bertelsmann Ventures (www.bvfund.com). For more information, please visit our web site at www.ants.com. |
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