I had the pleasure of sitting with Marco Goldring, Administrative Director of Spontaneous Celebrations, to discuss a partnership for MetroCreate's 2011 Free Website Program. "Spontaneous Celebrations refers to both a building in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States which acts as an arts and education center, and to a community group which is based there. The mission of the group is to create a cultural life through the arts, and especially through seasonal celebrations in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, Massachusetts and education. Its classes emphasize dance, stiltwalking, trapeze, and other circus arts."

I am very excited to be working with such a diverse and community driven organization. Look for updates on the state of the project in the coming weeks as I get underway with the website. Mike Delorme, MetroCreate's lead graphic designer, will be working with me on this project. Mike will be in charge of the logo design and other supplemental design materials as needed.

To learn more about Spontaneous Celebrations please visit their new website at: www.spontaneouscelebrations.org

*Update* the new Spontaneous Celebrations website has officially gone live!

I am very happy to announce that for the 2012 Free Website Program, the MetroCreate team have decided to not offer only 1 free website, but 2! The response to this years Program was so great resulting in a very hard time for us narrowing down the selections. In years past and most likely in the future, we typically only select one Free Website Project per year, so increasing this for 2 is a big deal for  MetroCreate!

So without further adieu the 2012 Free Website Recipients are:

For those of you not familiar with the Free Website Program you can learn more on this page. In brief the program was established in 2009 to offer marketing services to non profit organizations in the Metro Boston area. To date we have worked with Artspace Maynard, Cambridge Art Association, and Spontaneous Celebrations.

Spontaneous Celebrations is the 2011 recipient and we are in the final stages of launching that website. Look for their new site to be live this spring.

For 2012 we have recently received a number of great inquiries, and have today closed the request aspect of the process. Myself and team are currently reviewing 6 Boston area non profit organizations-all offering such amazing services to the city and state. We are geared to pick the 2012 recipient on Wednesday February 8th, and making final announcements on Thursday February 9th.

If you are a NPO interested in this program and would like to be considered for 2013 please contact me today.

Thank you to all that have expressed interest in the program!