Understanding The Meaning Of Human Services
What is the meaning of human services? The question seems simple enough. Though disciplines like social work and counseling have been around since the 19th century, the broader category of human services didn’t emerge as its own field of study until the 1960s. You may have a comprehensive, up-to-date definition of the term straight out of […]
How to Implement Your Human Services Software Quickly
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Searching for a new human services platform can turn up a host of options, leading to confusion or even analysis paralysis. Should you pick a familiar name-brand platform and spend the time (and consulting fees) conforming it to your specific needs? Or are there more appropriate choices for your organization that can help you save […]
The Best Human Services Software You Can Get in Canada
Of all the software platforms you can use for human services, one stands out as an ideal solution for organizations that fill this pressing need: Casebook. Now available in most of Canada, Casebook is the first and only pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for human services. Case managers, social workers, and other workers who are on […]
Certifying a Foster Parent is One of the Most Consequential Decisions in Child Welfare
If you ask any public or private child welfare agency in the United States, I submit that every single one of them would say they need more foster parents and they need them now. This causes recruiters to source the community for prospects, heartfelt PSAs to be playing on media outlets, and foster parent certification […]
How a Plastic Garbage Bag Became the Unofficial Luggage of Foster Care
It was a scene that I would see play out time and time again during my 13-year career, serving some of our nation’s most vulnerable youth. A child comes into care needing foster care, and the youth and their caseworker shows up with a couple of black garbage bags full of everything the child owned […]
Telling Your Organization’s Story to Grantmakers
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As an organization, you have to be able to pivot between funders to position yourselves for grants for which you’re eligible. The adaptability needed to convey different tones and key points in your work will ensure your longevity. In this post, you’ll learn more about how to build your institutional strategy to ensure sustainability. Nonprofits […]
Positioning Your Organization for Capacity-Building Grants
Building a legacy that stands the test of time is difficult. On average, US-based nonprofits have expenses of less than $1 million; and the majority of those focus on youth, education, community development, or human services at large. For every ‘powerhouse’ nonprofit (with budgets in the billions) there are thousands of grassroots organizations with expenses under that […]
Capacity-Building Grants | Nonprofit Case Studies
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In the previous post, we touched on how capacity-building grants are identified and developed in an effort to better position organizations for growth. Now, we’ll review the power of capacity-building grants and the impact they can have on an organization’s development. There are three main types of capacity-building efforts: People-Power Building: the implementation of training […]
Case management software that brings it all together.
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In recent interviews with practitioners, a recurring challenge mentioned was the difficulty or annoyance of toggling between different software programs, the potential pitfalls that presents, and how it’s frustrating to switch gears to work on one case or record. A trend highlighted in multiple stakeholder interviews was how a user might go to one software […]
What Being a Certified B Corp Means to Us
Casebook PBC is proud to be a Certified B Corp. Being a Certified B Corp means that Casebook PBC doesn’t just profess to want to make a positive impact on the world, but that our company is actually creating and prioritizing real, beneficial change. To us, the B Lab’s certification is a signifier that our company […]
