About Us

How it works

CCN operates “Virtual Charitable Communities” (VCCs) that are initially sponsored by a bank. A VCC is "activated" after reaching an operating fund requirement that is sensitive to area. Generally, the budget is fixed based on the number of congregations within any given geography (i.e., $100/year/congregration).

For example, the Nashville, TN VCC requires a total operating budget of $263,000 for CY2005 and CY2006. This is derived by multiplying the number of congregations in Nashville by $100 and then multiplying that number by two. This provides a 2-year "get up and go" budget.

Inactive and Active VCCs

The contributions of multiple national, regional and local sponsors are combined to reach the goal of a VCC. Until a VCC reaches its operating fund requirement, it remains inactive. No focused marketing effort is organized to enroll congregations that offer services, perfect charity information and mobilize community leaders. We maintain a minimum level of support for all inactive VCCs, seeding them in various ways, until momentum is developed for helping the VCC to fully fund.

Use of Funds

Funds that we collect are not used for charity. We urge those who want to give to a charity to use our CCN Search function to locate a charity.The funds we collect are used to implement and perfect a VCC. This requires administrative support, IT support and maintenance, marketing, formation of a circle of community volunteers to get the word out, active telemarketing to congregations in the VCC and implementation of links in high-traffic websites that direct people-in-need to our quick search service.

An active VCC benefits from targeted resources that perfect, maintain and enroll charity services. Our programs foster community interaction and help researchers to understand community-by-community dynamics to assist the un/under-insured population.

Active VCCs are inter-connected to increase efficiency during times of community need. While giving naturally occurs during times of crisis (i.e., 9/11), CCN provides an organized and integrated program – with both Internet and TV-based components (planned) – that substantivelyoptimizes access to funds for people in need.

In addition to community logistics, CCN supports an internet broadcasting operation. We actively tape and edit tapes related to charitable events in any given VCC. These are broadcast through the CCN channel. A syndicated program is being developed for other internet channels, radio and TV stations in North America, Europe and Asia. The more actively marketed the CCN resource, the more useful it will become to the communities we serve.
 

Individual contributions. Please note that CCN does not take individual contributions. We encourage individuals to locate a charity, foundation, congregation or other organization using our national search resource. Over 200,000 charities are loaded and new congregation-based services are being added every day.

Organizational Enrollment. If you are an organization, you can enroll by creating an account. Upon validation you will be introduced to MyCNN, your home page that provides tools to save searches, view CCN annnouncements, learn about new community programs and sponsorships and other services.

Sponsorship. To apply for sponsorship of a Virtual Charitable Community, you must be a legally chartered bank. We encourage you to ascertain cost using our VCC Calculator. Interested parties may contact us at:  ccn@mbproject.org. Thank you for visiting our site!