CharityUniversity was created by the staff and volunteers of CharityChannel following the 2004 CharityChannel Summit at Disneyland Resorts in Southern California.

It was a visionary response to the conviction that even a well-attended conference can reach only a fraction of the CharityChannel nonprofit professional community with its educational sessions.

Beginning with many of the presenters from the Summits who offered to use their Summit presentations as the subjects for the first classes, we launched CharityUniversity in October 2004.

CharityUniversity was housed on the CharityChannel web site until October, 2006, when it was given its new home here. It is still a vital part of the CharityChannel professional community, but it is also a portal for many other organizations who collaborate to produce classes and provide them to their constituents. Clearly, if CharityUniversity was to continue to grow, it needed its own home!

Not Just Another Pretty Face!

This is more than just another web platform. The CharityUniversity web site was created as part of the state-of-the-art CharityChannel Framework™, an system for producing advanced, easy-to-use web portals that serve the nonprofit professional community worldwide. It will enable CharityUniversity to rapidly expand and adapt to the needs of the many organizations who have joined the CharityUniversity Network. The CharityChannel web site itself is expected to re-launch on the CharityChannel Framework in January, 2007.