Where Have You Been?

Many people have asked, ‘What happened to Polonia Global Fund.’

Back in late winter 2005 PGF pulled down its website.

This was done for several reasons.

  • The first was that it was just getting too expensive to run and maintain. PGF did not have a huge funding or financial support base. Several generous donations, as well as the commitment of our directors, made things happen. Eventually the costs outpaced the support.
  • The second reason was that managing the website had become a tedious process. We used FrontPage to manage the old PGF site. Each new article and news story had to be input from scratch. The FrontPage code had to be cleaned up. It took tons of hours to maintain which was not effective in cost-benefit terms.
  • The third and really overriding reason was that the combination of the first two factors took away time from getting anything meaningful done. How could we enable and enhance our platforms while fully engrossed in website maintenance and cost.

Now the website was certainly effective in promoting the PGF message and program platforms. The number of visitors and the time they spent at the site spoke to that effectiveness. It was also sad that the positive offerings of the PGF website were lost.

PGF had a corresponding blog started in early 2002. I guess we were early adopters? We’ve decided to rebuild the PGF site using WordPress blogging technology.

Our Co-chair, Mr. James Konicki, has generously donating the hosting for the blog. In the near future we will port the articles and features from the PGF site to this blog.

Stay tuned…