Features & Benefits: Helping the Helpers with Casebook Technology
After about a decade of working in public safety, I would get frustrated when our radio and software vendors would claim to be “saving lives.” These technologies were instrumental in the process of saving lives, but the radios and software weren’t risking their life and limb to pull someone from a burning building. So when […]
Using Casebook to Optimize Multi-Service Organizations
How Does Casebook Help Multi-Service Centers When you work for a multi-service community center, you’re dealing with a thousand moving parts. From managing a gym to running a preschool or even a shelter, your organization does it all. You need case management software and a reporting system that can capture the breadth and depth of […]
Casebook’s Impact on Foster Care Services
cb Reporting for Foster Care Services Working in adoption and foster care means holding peoples’ lives in your hands, their dreams and hopes for finding and starting a new family. It’s sensitive information, and you want to know that data is accurate, safe, and confidential. Your funders want to ensure the data is showing positive […]
Continuing To Grow Your Nonprofit Through COVID
From here on out there will be even more challenges to providing care to communities. Nonprofit Organizations, Public Sector Agencies, and Other Resource Centers need more reliable solutions than paper forms, unorganized excel sheets and/or over priced generic software to efficiently serve and GROW their programs. What has been your organization’s pandemic response? How […]
Secure Your Funding Pt. 3 — Emphasis On The Data
So far, we’ve reviewed watchdog sites’ standards, detailing indicators for a nonprofit’s success, and articulating metrics. What do all of these have in common? DATA! Ratings, program development, case-making…all are driven by a drumbeat of qualitative and quantitative data. How the public views your nonprofit matters. How you view your nonprofit matters. And how you […]
Casebook’s Adaptive Model Of Support
One of the benefits of my job is that I’m continually introduced to organizations making a big impact in their corner of the world. Like a good parent says: “They are all my favorites.” The truth is, some stand out more than others for their unique approaches or forgotten niches of the community that they […]
Secure Your Funding pt. 1 — Third Party Evaluations
Okay so you really want funders to love you, right? That makes sense! Getting funder buy-in often equates to higher levels of investments. So what drives a program officer (or other donor!) to rally behind your organization? Well, it all boils down to trust. And in order for a funder to trust you, they have […]
Secure Your Funding pt. 2 — Data & Metrics, The Gifts That Keep On Giving
Previously we reviewed standardized metrics from third-party validator sites that funders and donors often use to determine a nonprofit’s viability for funding. However, it’s not just third-party sites that maintain metric benchmarks for nonprofits. Institutional funders often have their own internal evaluation sites and standardized metrics. In addition to sharing the core points that watchdog […]
Building Solutions for Today and for Tomorrow
A new decade is starting, which is a good time for us all to reflect on the world we had a decade ago and the world we will have a decade from now. The iPad, streaming services like Netflix, on-demand services like Uber, drones, and AIs like Siri and Alexa, all things that did not […]
Understanding the CCWIS Final Rule
On June 2, 2016, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) issued a final Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) rule to replace the Statewide and Tribal Automated Child Welfare Information Systems (S/TACWIS) rule, which for more than twenty years had been the vehicle through which states sought federal assistance for funding child welfare technology […]