By outsourcing IT to a knowledgeable and long-standing partner, CAAB was able to stop focusing on their IT and focus on what it does best - manage, recruit, train volunteers, and earn more refunds for residents of DC!
Thanks to a technology plan and related help from NPower Seattle, Washington Health Foundation is poised to direct its unique mix of public affairs, policy, grantmaking and direct service to realize a vision of moving Washington state to the top spot as the #1 Healthiest State in the Nation.
In 2008, Peace X Peace won one of NPower's Annual Technology Innovation Awards, for their Global Network platform. Their prize included a comprehensive assessment of their technology conducted by NPower. The assessment identified several areas where improvements were needed and provided detailed and actionable recommendations
Through a referral from another NPower client, Threshold contacted NPower for assistance. NPower staff performed a comprehensive assessment of all hardware and software and made a series of recommendations, highlighting items by cost and priority.
For one NPower Charlotte Region client, technology is truly for the birds -- or more specifically, for the birds of prey. How have some technology upgrades helped the Carolina Raptor Center deliver their mission?
The Family Center approached the NPower NY office at a time the organization had 1 main IT person and was looking for support for a newly created division that was to reside in the Brooklyn office.
A customer of NPower since 2001, Common Ground did not have a dedicated IT staff person in house. Instead, one employee with an interest in technology accepted IT responsibilities in addition to the staff member's regular, full time job.
The Community Service Center for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing realized that getting their technology systems in order needed to be a high priority for the organization.
Community Addiction Services of Indiana wanted to develop a more efficient and up-to-date technology infrastructure to manage its operations, facilitate information sharing and track client information.
Experiencing problems with its network and knowing it was a result of the server being overworked, the staff at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) was nervous that their inability to properly backup and save important files would someday come back to haunt them.
Robin Hood's Management Assistance team (MA team) was constantly being bombarded with urgent requests from grant recipients for assistance on a wide range of technology issues.
When Community of Hope obtained Federally Qualified Health Clinic status in 2006, the organization's growth blossomed, and Kelley Sweeney McShane, Executive Director, knew she needed help implementing the right technology.
This Tech Impact Story examines how NPower set up the computers and network at all 13 USO-Metro locations on military bases, at airports, and in military hospitals in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
At the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House, parents were struggling to balance the demands of staying with children and continuing to work and the House's staff needed assistance and training.
Thanks to Scheduled Support services provided by NPower Seattle, Treehouse has a solid technology infrastructure that lets staff take on mission-based projects and deliver services to help foster kids.
Jameson Camp in Indiana was having much of its IT work done by volunteers. While the generous efforts of those volunteers were greatly appreciated, at times the service was inconsistent, and did not always meet the organization's needs.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta shifted their marketing focus to recruiting more volunteers and donors. To communicate more effectively with the community, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta decided to launch a more professional looking and informative web site.
The Dallas Furniture Bank wanted to communicate more effectively with donors and member service organizations by improving their Web site's capacity for interaction, mainly through adding online forms.
Citizens Committee for NYC, was increasingly concerned that the assistance being provided by the Citizens Committee to their neighborhood based block associations was being lost in piles of paper.
Having just received a large federal grant to increase access to health care for residents of SW Brooklyn, Lutheran Health Care's Jim Stiles pulled together a coalition of nearly 400 community-based and faith-based organizations to help him solve one of the community's most intransigent problems.
Ms. Brown is the parent of a severely developmentally disabled child in Brooklyn. Her child faces a number of serious barriers in life, including difficulty progressing in a traditional educational setting and limited employment options as an adult.
Saint Patrick Catholic School needed a new website, but they didn't have the resources to build it themselves or the money to pay an expensive contractor. NPower Charlotte Region helped them redefine their online presence and streamline communication with parents.
Does the challenge of sharing resources and connecting 600 staff scattered around the world in 25 countries sound like a daunting task? It is, and it's the perfect match for web-based technology. That's what the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) and NPower Seattle discovered in the process of creating an intranet site for I-TECH's worldwide staff.
The Children's Shelter was one of three organizations selected in San Antonio to receive the extreme web makeover. They wanted to utilize the web site redesign to bring attention to the programs they offer and to increase monetary and in kind donations.
NPower Charlotte Region expanded the ASC's eCampaign system in 2007 to integrate their entire volunteer solicitor tracking process with the eCampaign system.
Thanks to NPower Seattle's perceptive questions and expert Salesforce skills, Friends of the Orphans offices across the US are better equipped to help children in a network of orphanages in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A Salesforce database and web integration have facilitated an expansion in student enrollment at Arts Corps, by freeing up staff time to support programming. Learn how Arts Corps became "a better, stronger organization today because of the work NPower did with us in 2005 and 2006."
The Arts and Science Council (ASC) enlisted the help of NPower Charlotte Region to rewrite its eCampaign fundraising system. The ASC needed a system that would allow companies to solicit their employees for personal financial pledges and gifts that would support the arts and cultural community.
SAM brings a high caliber of art within reach of the public. Its staff needed a high caliber financial reporting tool within reach of their capacity and budget.
iMentor understood the extraordinary potential of technology to power its work. However, it lacked a strong IT foundation for itself. The organization struggled to manage growing numbers of adult volunteers and the young people assigned to them in a simple spreadsheet, iMentor reached out to NPower NY for IT help.
Executive Directors are busy folks, perhaps none more so than Tim Block, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia. Whether it's time spent with important donors or time spent on job sites around the city, Tim relies on mobile communications to keep on top of work back at the office.
Through the innovative program Middle School Matters, launched by Partners in Out-of-School Time, NPower Charlotte Region is directly in touch with the future - children.
As a community foundation with over 60 years of history and a mission to create a healthy community through engaged philanthropy, community knowledge and leadership, The Seattle Foundation casts a tall shadow in the Seattle area. Many local nonprofits have benefited from the funding and support provided by the Foundation.
