Community Building and Development is one of the exciting opportunities and challenges for information technologies. As people seek governmental, educational, and organizational information through on-line sources, the opportunities to interact with their neighbors and local community are lessoned. We seek to use information technologies to bring people together and encourage interaction amoung them within their neighborhoods and local communities.

ChesterCountyConnect.Net Project - This portal was built as a joint venture of CCIL and several municipalites, organizations, and the West Chester Area School District. The full ownership and control of the project was transferred to CCIL in 2004. This website was built with two primary objectives.

• To be a resource for finding organizations and information limited to just Chester County; since search engine results usually produce an overwhelming volumn of "world wide" information.
  
  
• Integrated Community Calendar to provide a single entry shared calendar in which events could be pushed to more than one calendar without duplicate entry.

Website Hosting - CCIL hosts a variety of websites and a community portal. Here is a sampling of sites hosted by CCIL:

• Habitat for Humanity of Chester County
• Interfaith Housing Assistance of Chester County
• The Salvation Army of Chester County
• Upper Oxford Twp
• West Chester Rotary
• West Chester Rotary Chili Cookoff
• Brandywine Valley Ski Association
• Boroughs/Unisys Retiree Alumni Page
• Bob's Chester County PA Information Center
• Boy Scout Troop 216
• Chester County Reading Association
• Cowan - Figlets
• Downingtown Area Senior Center
• Insurance Information
• Indian King Residence Assoc - W Whiteland Twp
• Marshall Manor Neighborhood-WC
• Wil Smith Fan Club Page
• West Chester High School Class of 1960
• West Chester High School Class of 1962
• The White Clay Watershed Association
• White Clay Creek Watershed Management Committee
• Willistown United Methodist Church
  
  Websites that started on CCIL- "our graduates"
• Cerebral Palsy Association of Chester County
• Grove United Methodist Church
• Earth Space Resource - Starryskies.com/a>
• West Chester Area Senior Center
• West Chester Christian Church

E-Mail Distribution Lists help facilitate communication within a group. E-mail addresses are subscribed to a moderated list. Posters can send e-mails to the list based on a set of restrictions set by the moderator. These distribution lists are currently being used by the West Chester Rotary Club, Marshall Manor Neighborhood Association, and several other special interest groups. Some lists are private; however for a list of public lists go to MAILING LISTS.

DO YOU KNOW A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT NEEDS HELP WITH A WEBSITE? - Let us know. CCIL is looking to help build and host websites for non-profit organizations. To learn how to get started....[CLICK HERE]