In light of all the feedback on this board, I picked up a book last night and began to study html and downloaded Word Press. You'll probably see me lurking on the Word Press board next.

That said, there are a number of companies that have already expressed interest in helping fund this site. Naive it may be, they are interested in helping this would-be non-profit achieve a charitable goal, particularly when in exchange they'll get unlimited exposure for one year to an audience they'd really like to reach.

Further, a foundation is inviting me to a third meeting to discuss providing seed money...this organization's backing would give me instant street cred.

If I don't get backing from the foundation, I may just go ahead and knock this thing out on my own in some sort of minimal fashion, just to get it rolling, which seems to be the popular consensus on how to proceed here.

My background is in national marketing and promotions. It is this background that leads me to take the course of sponsorship first, followed by development, and then marketing. Time and again, I was paid to build audiences, to the point where I was able to retire at a very young age.

This said, I am going to heed the advice on this board and begin to learn to build the elements of this myself...well, maybe with the help of these forums here.