Website Overview: This website is intended to help military members and their families in various ways. The organization seeks to educate the public about military families, advocate for programs and benefits for service members and their families or next of kin, assist in supplementing support with other major organizations and the federal government, and educate military families about benefits that are available to support them in all aspects of military life. Intended Audience: The site is squarely focused on the military family and the service member as the primary audience. A supplemental audience would certainly be the surrounding community and policy makers that have the capability to influence decisions that affect military families in the community. While the site is primarily focused on Indiana, it does look to offer its resources nationwide to any service family that needs help. Relationship to Work, Family, & Community: What greater example of how work and family can overlap than the military? As a Marine Corps Veteran, I can certainly understand the struggles that this presents to family members of service members especially during deployment. This site offers multiple areas of education and links to other supporting organizations that can help during that time of separation and can also help when the service member is nearly their end of active service and ready to transition to the civilian sector. It offers useful tips for family life, transitioning back from combat, education opportunities, and many other areas that typically aren't at the forefront of the service members concerns until the situation presents itself. Critique & Credibility: The site is a stand-alone site that is not related to a union, special interest group, or lobbying association. It does try to advocate, where possible, to ensure that service members are protected during policy making discussions, but it appears that it is of a strictly advocating nature. The Dep

...the Department of Veterans Affairs and multiple nationwide military organizations are among the donors to this website. All are seperate from policy making and lobbying. The site claims non-profit organizational status and has posted many publicatoins that have been used on a national level even though this particular organization is focused at a statewide level predominately. However, it does aspire to spread to a nationwide organizational level to spread its values. With regard to organizational efficiency, it has partnered with a myriad of different well respected organizations to bring aid and relief to military personnel and their families, and it continues to focus on that particular effort rather than getting into the political mix. From a personal opinion standpoint, it is always nice to see organizations such as this. The Wounded Warrior Project is another great organization that focuses on a lot of the efforts you see this particular one focus on. I was highly impressed with all that they offer and pleased to know that somebody is filling the gap.

The Center for the Child Care Workforce URL: www.ccw.org Website Overview: This website is intended to help the education workforce develop leadership and advocacy skills intended to affect the available assets and applicable policies that effect early childhood development and education. The website advocates "having a seat at the table" where decisions and policy are made that effect the overall operations, policy standards, and programs of the education system. Intended Audience: The site clearly states in its mission statement that the intended audience is the educators, administrators, and all those directly connected to the education system as a staff member. The material is accessible to the general public and for the educational workforce. It seeks to tie the two together as more of teacher-parent education than a niched website strictly for the education workforce. This is evidenced by many parent focused sections included in the educator sections. Relationship to Work, Family, & Community: This website is relevant to the class in that it focuses on the early education of children and community projects that might be beneficial to helping them develop skills during their education and also advocate for the home and after school programs available to them. Credibility: This is a front for a union operation that seeks to advocate for the wages and benefits of the educator. While there is some subtle delivery of policies and programs that seems very beneficial to all, there are certainly strings attached for the union to be able to benefit. There are several different areas related to wages, tax revenue, and how to squeeze more money out of the government to fund programs related to education - all with a nice little bump for the teachers union. There are also areas of the website related to "supporting" the website and the union through monetary giving. Areas also exist to organize protest rallies, sit-ins, and days off to educate teac

...to educate teachers as to the issues that the union is supporting, all while being on the taxpayer clock with "paid training." While some of the issues that are delivered in the website are educational to some, they are spun around the key political issues that are backed by this particular union. Funding for the website also is related to several different union labor and collective bargaining groups, adding to the lack of neutral credibility that this site might have otherwise had.