Dear Shawn & Dallas GiveCamp Volunteers, Sponsors, and Everyone who made it happen

For the past two years, The Eleanor League has struggled to raise awareness and gain funding for our organization. It was tough, made tougher by the fact that no one knew about us since we didn't have a website. With our peers in the professional world, they saw us as almost non-existent since we didn't have a web presence: what kind of legitimate organization has no web presence? When we heard about GiveCamp, we jumped at the opportunity to apply and hoped we would get accepted. I was so thrilled when Shawn called and said we had been selected as one of the charities. Our goal to reach women, to empower them to live their dreams, to enable them through funding and opportunities, and to mentor them into vibrant and vital pieces of the community will now be able to be accomplished, in no small part due to the opportunity we have been given through Dallas GiveCamp. When we met our team, we discovered more than a group of developers who enjoyed spending their weekends writing code for fun: we discovered people with a heart for their community, volunteering their talents for organizations who needed them. Our Project Managers, Aaron and Jesslyn from Slalom (http://www.slalom.com/) were tireless in their efforts. Our team from Slalom (Tracey, Ashwin, Trent, Carolus, and Vishal) were amazing and attentive, trying to make our every wish come true for the website. Carolus spent several hours setting up an online store for us, something we hadn't even thought of! Aaron had a sick child at home and still worked remotely on the design and development. Jesslyn had family from out of town in this weekend, and she still made time to spend most of Saturday up at GiveCamp with us. They had fun, but they made the experience SO much fun for us, too! They even ate our homemade treats without complaint (even though the icing melted off the cupcakes)! Part of what non-profit organizations do is empower people to do something that they couldn't do for themselves. Eleanor League strives to empower people through education and mentoring to become more collectively than they could have done by themselves. But the developers and designers at GiveCamp do the same and more. Not only are they doing something for us that we couldn't do for ourselves, they are doing something for the populations that we serve - they are helping us fulfill our mission. We are forever grateful for this opportunity, and for our AWESOME website.

Thanks again for choosing us, Joni & Shawn
The Eleanor League
http://www.eleanorleague.com