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OPERATION DONATION
Hostway announces the results of Holiplay, its online charity program:
Junior Achievement received $26,645, and NetDay filled its piggy bank
with $23,355.
Chicago, IL-Thursday, January 6, 2005-What
do you get when you mix one worldwide hosting company, two renowned
charities, three dynamic online games, and 50,000 bucks?
Hostway's Holiplay, of course.
This name doesn't belong to a spiffy Christmas cookie or a fancy holiday
drink. It's better: Holiplay is Hostway's online holiday charity program
designed to benefit two organizations that are dedicated to promoting
technology and education in youth-Junior Achievement and NetDay.
"The generosity of the Hostway Corporation in helping Junior
Achievement reach out to more than 1,000 additional students-who
would not have had the chance to participate in JA's programs that
will help them reach their career dreams' is truly amazing," said
Tom Dewar, senior vice president at Junior Achievement . "We
tip our hats to the Hostway associates who have shown, in a most tangible
way, that they care deeply about children and their futures."
Hostway Corporation, a global leader in Web hosting and managed services,
launched its Holiplay charity campaign mid-November last year with
the intention of donating $50,000 to the mentioned organizations.
Since then, the campaign went viral and received 710,907 (as of noon
CST, Thursday, January 6, 2005) visits to the site.
Why so many visits? Well, for one, the games, designed by Chicago's
15 Letters are truly sensational. "Snow or Blow" and "Lick 'n Bowl"
combine high-tech graphics, adorable characters, catchy holiday tunes,
and funny effects for all of the office desk jockeys around the globe.
Kids and adults alike can get a kick out of walking their kid characters
through snow to gain points by catching tasty snowflakes with their
tongues.
When visitors finished playing these games, they received the opportunity
to vote how Hostway would donate its $50,000. 105,662 votes later,
Junior Achievement triumph ed with 54.7% (57,759) of the votes, and
NetDay followed closely behind with a sizable 45.3% (47,903 votes).
Don't bother with the math: Junior Achievement received $26,645,
and NetDay filled its piggy bank with $23,355.
"NetDay would like to thank Hostway Corporation for sponsoring
the Holiplay campaign and all of the thousands of people who
voted for NetDay to receive a portion of this significant donation,"
says Julie Evans, NetDay's chief executive officer. "This donation
to NetDay will have a tremendous impact on our abilities to help more
K-12 schools and students all across the country in 2005.
"One hundred percent of the Hostway donation will be used to support
NetDay's nationally heralded 'Speak Up Day' events, which
over the past two years have provided online opportunities for
over 377,000 K-12 students from all 50 states to share their ideas
and aspirations on technology and education," adds Evans. "This
donation means that more students and more schools in 2005 will be
able to participate in the annual Speak Up Day online surveys than
ever before."
Tomorrow, Hostway will launch Operation Donation on www.hostway.com/holiplay.
Like the other Holiplay interactive adventures, Operation
Donation is another cute game with a cute kid and a cute mission-to
keep Freddie Flyer aloft on his propeller until he reaches a landing
that announces the campaign's votes and donations.
"Hostway is truly excited to spread holiday cheer this year by entertaining
our site's visitors with our Holiplay games, and by helping two exceptional
charities, NetDay and Junior Achievement," said John Lee, Hostway's
vice president of marketing.
NetDay is "a national, education technology nonprofit, whose mission
is to connect every child to brighter future. . To develop capacity
for effective technology use in learning environments." Junior Achievement
(www.ja.org) "inspires kids to achieve at the business of life through
a community-based partnership of educators, volunteers and business
professionals."
While Junior Achievement may have received more votes, there are only
winners in this campaign-the kids who will benefit from Hostway's
holiday donation by the charities they support.
About Hostway Corporation
Hostway Corporation provides Web hosting and managed services to more
than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small
businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from state-of-the-art
Web-based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded
in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies
in the world with offices in North America (Chicago, Tampa and Vancouver),
Europe (London and Amsterdam), Asia (Seoul) and Australia (Sydney).
For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit www.hostway.com
or call 1-888-290-5170.
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