Mercury New Media Re-launches Pasco Education Foundation Website

CONTACT: Pasco Education Foundation
Chip Wichmanowski
Telephone: (813) 794-2705
Fax: (813) 794-2136
Email: cwichman@pasco.k12.fl.us    

Mercury New Media Re-launches Pasco Education Foundation Website
Foundation initiates one-stop online scholarship application process for students and teachers    

Land O' Lakes, FL - March 3, 2005 - The Pasco Education Foundation announced today that it has re-launched its new website, now located at www.pascoeducationfoundation.org. The new website, designed and developed by Tampa-based web consultancy Mercury New Media, was re-launched to enable the Foundation to reach Pasco County students, faculty, sponsors and the community.  

In addition to a new design and expanded content, significantly enhanced features and functions are available to site visitors and Foundation staff. A key feature of the new website is the ability for students and employees to apply for all available scholarships and grants online via a single application. This new functionality allows the Foundation to reach a much larger group of applicants. In addition, an automated scholarship application screening and processing capability allows the Foundation to handle far more applications than the former manual process.  

“The Foundation is committed to tying the Pasco County School system and Pasco communities together. Our new website and scholarship application processing system extends our reach and makes the application process much easier”, said Chip Wichmanowski, President of The Pasco Education Foundation. “As a leader in providing scholarship and grant opportunities to the Pasco community, the Foundation is always looking for ways to make it easier to match contributions with those in need. Our new site clearly enables us to do this.”  

Mercury New Media works with for-profit and non-profit companies in the Bay Area, including many of the leading education foundations. ”Mercury New Media is committed to finding new and innovative ways to use technology to simplify life for all constituents within the education community,” says Christopher Karlo, Partner of Mercury New Media.    

About the Pasco Education Foundation The Pasco Education Foundation, Inc. was established in 1991 as a direct support, non-profit corporation. The Foundation is an avenue for the individuals and the private sector to develop positive and supportive relationships with the Pasco County School district and to make philanthropic contributions to help accomplish the goals of Pasco County 's public schools. Since its inception, many committed individuals, businesses, and organizations have contributed time and money to support the Foundation's work. The Foundation has disbursed more than $500,000 in creative teaching grants, scholarships, awards, and computers to the students and staff of Pasco 's public schools.  

About Mercury New Media Mercury New Media, Inc. is a Tampa-based web consultancy specializing in online strategy, website development and process automation via the web. Mercury has experience working with companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500 across a range of industries. Founded in 1998, Mercury serves clients in the Tampa area and beyond. For more information on Mercury New Media's services, access the website at www.mercurynewmedia.com.