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Hi Evan,
Thank you for trying to get some communication going between non-profit organizations using Quick Base. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like anyone replied to you here. I work for a small non-profit graduate school (Erikson Institute in Chicago) and our department provides professional development to teachers of young children. We developed our first app (with Joe Yung) to organize a collection of 1,400 video observations. Our researchers review the videos & complete an evaluation form in Quickbase. Our second app tracks teachers & children participating in a related research study. The next one we want to build would be for our coaches. Coaches are like consultants - they conduct visits with teachers at our partner schools & provide them with feedback on their lesson. We anticipate creating several forms depending on the type of coaching session (planning, observation, reflection) and want to track the content of those conversations.
But what else? We've looked at sample apps in QB, but our challenge is often figuring out what they really do & how they work. We're a bunch of novices who've had some success but could really use some other people to bounce ideas of off.
If you can think of any threads or users you've interacted with -- please help me connect!
Thanks,
Suzanne Budak
Erikson Institute
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Suzanne Budak
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- CullenCoates5 years agoQrew TraineeEvan
I appreciate your efforts to bring together the QB non-profit community. As a QSP we have been working with non-profits for 16 years and I know of only one other who has a significant track record in that regard - we partnered at a national conference a few years ago to introduce QB. I think that one of the issue is that QB hasn't officially recognized non-profit as an industry focus so it's a challenge for non-profit prospects to find resources, connections and such. A number of years ago QB featured a non-profit at Empower and raised $10k for them - one of our clients as it happened - but that program was discontinued with the initial sale by Intuit. Hopefully it could be resurrected. It might be interesting to organize a periodic Zoom networking call for non-profits so they could discuss issues of common interest. Let me know how I can help out.
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Cullen Coates
cwcoates@crystalbaysolutions.com
------------------------------- EvanMartinez5 years agoQuickbase StaffHi Cullen,
The thought of doing a few more zoom meet ups for those interested in meeting others in their industry is something we have been chatting about around the office. A way for us to help people meet and connect knowing that so many live industry events have had to cancel or be put on hold. Non-profit is one where the networking session we had at Empower went really well, and we know it is an industry where it can be hard to find others since they can be so spread out geographically. For the program you mentioned that pre-dates me being at QB a bit but it is certainly something I can look into a bit more. Thanks for reaching out and I'll definitely touch base with you as things take a bit more shape. I would say you should also think about joining up on the Slack channel as well if you haven't. Have a great day!
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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- EvanMartinez5 years agoQuickbase StaffHi Suzanne,
It is great to meet another person in the Non-profit space using QB. We set this chat up to go along with our Non-profit networking session that we did this year for Virtual Empower. Did you get a chance to attend that session Suzanne? There was a speaker who joined and a number of others who took part in breakout groups to discuss things unique to their space and usage of QB. If you didn't you can actually still catch the recording of it right here. It is available on demand right on the agenda if you look under the Networking session.
Besides that I know we also have a number of the participants in our Slack channel we set up for Empower, that is going to sticking around for a while to help people connect and chat. I just set up a Non-profit channel specifically for networking today since I realized it didn't get set up before with the other industry channels. I would definitely recommend jumping in there and saying hello, I am going to be making sure others know it is there. It is a great place to start building up interest maybe for a future networking session and zoom meet up.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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