CivicShare Web Site Offers New Revenue Source To Communities.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SACRAMENTO Sacramento, city, United States Sacramento (săkrəmĕn`tō), city (1990 pop. 369,365), state capital and seat of Sacramento co., central Calif. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004 CivicShare.com (CivicShare) announced today the launch of a new web site that provides residents and businesses nationwide the opportunity to assist their community to raise revenue for fire and rescue, law enforcement, and other vital services while conveniently shopping online. Faced with increasing cutbacks in federal and state assistance, every community is becoming increasingly dependent upon the revenue generated by its own economic base to define the level of services it can afford to provide its citizens. "In many areas of the nation, budget deficits are pressuring cities and counties to make cuts to police, fire and other vital, first responder first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency services," says Beverly Beverly, city (1990 pop. 38,195), Essex co., NE Mass., on Massachusetts Bay; inc. as a city 1894. Its chief manufactures are electronic and scientific equipment, consumer goods, and chemicals. Austin, a consultant with CivicShare. "This ongoing economic drain will make it difficult for cities and counties to resist pressure to raise taxes in order to sustain emergency and other important services at current levels." CivicShare.com provides citizens shopping online the opportunity to register and select a community to receive a percentage of every purchase made by the shopper. By shopping online with CivicShare's hundreds of stores, catalogs, and online merchants, participating consumers can earn a percentage of each purchase for their community -- at no cost to the consumer. The web site also provides shoppers with links to the Internet's most frequented store, catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. and online retailers that shoppers already know and patronize pa·tron·ize tr.v. pa·tron·ized, pa·tron·iz·ing, pa·tron·iz·es 1. To act as a patron to; support or sponsor. 2. To go to as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. . While supporting their community, shoppers will enjoy the same discounts, special offers and low prices available to them now with the added convenience of locating major retailers at one web site. Free registration and shopping information for the CivicShare web site can be found at the following URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.civicshare.com. About CivicShare (www.civicshare.com) Founded in 2003, CivicShare is the leading "cash-back rewards" site offering shoppers hundreds of brand name stores, catalogs and online merchants to shop from while providing them the option to support "First Responder Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' " and other vital life services in communities nationwide. CivicShare is the first and only online shopping site on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the that offers local communities a percentage of each participating consumer's purchase. To deliver a premium online shopping experience, CivicShare has aligned with strategic partners and retailers to deliver superior electronic shopping capabilities for its consumers. |
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