The FAMCare Blog

Vast but Invisible

Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, but one of the most crucial. Encompassing multi-million dollar health complexes and far larger numbers of small operations with annual budgets of less than $25,000, nonprofit organizations are a diverse collection of private institutions that mobilize individual initiative for the common good. They deliver much of the hospital care, higher education, social services, cultural entertainment, social welfare, and emergency aid services available in our country. They also give expression to a wide variety of artistic, religious, cultural, ethnic, social, and recreational impulses that add richness to community life. 

If You Have the Will, We Have the Way 

The National Association of Social Workers states emphatically that: 

Yes - you read that right... "Your Data Doesn't Matter!"

Well, actually - that is a half truth.  Of course your data does matter.  The point is when agencies and caseworkers are looking for new case management software - they focus mostly on their data... how it will be collected, what it will look like, how informative and actionable is the data and will it be helpful to your funders?