I receive lots of great e-knowledge from the city of Indianapolis, which has great ICE - Internet Community Effectiveness - and they (and other high-ICE cities) use the WWW for more than just political grandstanding. Below is a nice example, where Indy Gov is leveraging their eGov excellence in collaboration with their Colts football team to collect money for Tsunami victoms - Colts C.A.R.E. - (Communities Assisting Relief
Efforts). So, a city is leveraging relationships with citizens and an event attracting 10,000s of people to raise money to help 100,000s - that's a smart community and administration - read on about champions working together:

From: events [at] elists [dot] indygov [dot] org
[mailto:events [at] elists [dot] indygov [dot] org] On Behalf Of EVENTS
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:46 AM
To: events [at] elists [dot] indygov [dot] org
Subject: [events] COLTS C.A.R.E.: Tsunami Relief Drive-Thru

The COLTS C.A.R.E. (Communities Assisting Relief
Efforts): Tsunami Relief Drive-Thru will be held today with a follow-up
collection at Sunday’s Wild Card Playoff game against the Denver Broncos. 

• Donations of cash or check ONLY will be accepted.
• Checks should be made out to “Friends of the WFP.â€?
• NO donated product will be accepted.

Fans will be able to use drive-thru donation lanes on
Senate Street to make their donation. Fans who attend the drive-thru will
receive a special 2005 Colts playoff poster. Donations will be collected by
local Indianapolis celebrities, Colts Cheerleaders and Colts personnel. Fans
should enter Senate Street from South Street. Traffic will be directed south.

DATE: Thursday, January 6, 2005

TIME: 5:00 — 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: RCA Dome — Senate and South Streets

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For more information about these and other events, please
visit the City of Indianapolis Special Events website:  http://www.indygov.org/controller/special_events/

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