{"id":9787,"date":"2017-10-30T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/people-with-chronic-illnesses-and-disabilities-get-their-own-media-channel-with-the-mighty.html"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:52:06","slug":"people-with-chronic-illnesses-and-disabilities-get-their-own-media-channel-with-the-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/people-with-chronic-illnesses-and-disabilities-get-their-own-media-channel-with-the-mighty.html","title":{"rendered":"People with chronic illnesses and disabilities get their own media channel with The Mighty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s a corkboard in the kitchen at the office of The Mighty<\/a>, the social network for people with chronic illnesses, mental health disorders and disabilities, which has pictures and letters from many of the site\u2019s thousands of contributors and readers who have benefited from the stories the site shares.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s there to remind the company\u2019s staffers of the faces behind the work they do and the impact that the site has on its legion of readers and writers.<\/p>\n

For The Mighty founder, Mike Porath, the site\u2019s mission is as much a personal story as it is a professional one. In a piece announcing the company\u2019s launch<\/a> in 2014, Porath wrote about his family\u2019s own struggles.<\/p>\n

Porath\u2019s\u00a0two-year-old daughter suffers from a rare genetic disorder, diagnosed the same day that his pregnant wife, Sarah, received news that the baby she was carrying would likely be born without at least one organ.<\/p>\n

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Lying in bed that night we were shaken and lost. This was not the life or family we had planned. I remember feeling small and hollow, a powerless husband and father. Whether it was a futile attempt to comfort my wife or a way for me to make sense of it all, I told her that we were going to do something good with this. How, she asked. I had no idea. We were in tears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Porath\u2019s struggled through the adversity, in part through the help of a community of supporters, and from that experience The Mighty was born.<\/p>\n

The founders (Porath\u2019s wife is in charge of human resources) have gone from that post three years ago to create a community that now numbers more than 1 million members and has raised $8.2 million in new financing.<\/p>\n

Initially, the Porath\u2019s bootstrapped the business and within a few months had gotten the website up and hired Meg Griffo, a Huffington Post writer, as their editor. Within a year the company grew from 2,000 to 20,000 visits per day, which was when Joanne Wilson came on as a seed investor.<\/p>\n

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The corkboard in the offices of The Mighty<\/p>\n

At first, the site was more of a Huffington Post-style platform for authors to share their experiences, but as it has evolved, it has created a hub-and-spoke approach, with community members able to take on more autonomy and create topics and post content on their own.<\/p>\n