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Community Involvement

An important element in hesketh.com's corporate responsibility is its commitment to the community. hesketh.com demonstrates this commitment by sponsoring groups that reflect, in some way, our own corporate values. Specifically, hesketh.com:

  • Actively participates and supports local communities where we do business.
  • Provides charitable support to selected not-for-profit organizations.
  • Supports the charitable interests of our employees.
  • Provides leadership and participation in appropriate online community initiatives.

hesketh.com sponsorships and community involvement include:

Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
CED mission is to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact companies and accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle region.
Our involvement: Innovation to Impact partner-level sponsor and Conference Web sponsor since 1996
City of Oaks Marathon
This 2007 Raleigh marathon and half marathon event marks the return of the marathon to the City of Oaks after a five year absence. The name honors the abundance of oak trees and natural areas found in North Carolina's capital city. We encourage you to celebrate the diversity of Raleigh's landscape, from modern city to forest trails and open farmland by participating in or volunteering for this Raleigh marathon and related events.
Our involvement: sponsor – web design, user experience, hosting
Springboard: Southeast Venture Capital Forum
Springboard Southeast 2002 is the region's first venture capital forum showcasing women entrepreneurs. Springboard Enterprises is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating investment opportunities for women-led firms and to increase women's participation in the equity capital markets as both entrepreneurs and investors.
Our involvement: Contributor-level sponsor, Forum Committee Member
Triangle Women's Center Art Show: Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands
The Women's Center empowers women and girls to realize their potential. We They are a non-profit resource center offering information, education, referral and support services to Triangle area women and their families.
Our involvement: annual sponsor
webdesign-L Online Community
webdesign-l is a mailing list community of 2000+ professionals. The list is intended as a forum for those involved in creating the Web.
Our involvement: founders of this ten-year-old, 2200+ member group for Web developers
Triangle Web Women (formerly Triangle Webgrrls)
Triangle Web Women (formerly Webgrrls) provides a forum for women in or interested in new media and technology to network, exchange job and business leads, form strategic alliances, mentor and teach, intern and learn the skills to help women succeed in an increasingly technical workplace and world.
Our involvement: founding member
Web Standards Project
One of WaSP's primary goals is to provide educational resources that can help our peers learn standards-compliant methods of Web development. These methods are in their interest and that of their clients and site users.
Our involvement: steering committee member and Web sponsor
South by SouthWest (SxSW) Interactive Conference
SxSW is the conference where the brightest and most innovative minds in the interactive industry meet to talk about ongoing industry trends and speculate on how these trends will impact society at large.
Our involvement: steering committee member and speaker
National Press Photography Association: Best of Photojournalism (BoP)
BoP was designed by photojournalists for photojournalists. It is the technology leader among photo contests worldwide.
Our involvement: sponsor
Women in Technology International (WITI)
WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity.
Our involvement: speaker
Triangle InterNetworkers
InterNetworkers is a geographically defined, loosely knit group of technology workers who like to get together once a month to network and socialize.
Our involvement: founding members
Building Character
Building Character reaches children through character development to ensure personal empowerment, positive perspectives, and community awareness will prosper in tomorrow's citizen-population.
Our involvement: pro bono development