The Bay Area Cross-Sector Partners in Preparedness (BACSPP) is a consortium led by the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter and its development partners -- Carnegie Mellon, Silicon Valley’s (CMU-SV) Disaster Management Initiative (DMI), and Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD). The project will develop a collaboration application that would facilitate smooth coordination of information and resources in a disaster, increasing efficiency as diverse actors work to provide critical safety net functions to vulnerable populations when they need it most. The tool will use Chatter and enable emergency managers and disaster coordinators from across sectors (nonprofit, business, and government) to communicate in real-time, share key information and coordinate resource provisioning.

Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA) is the largest outpatient social services provider in San Francisco with over 16,000 clients served annually from five major service sites. Building on the Salesforce.com platform, FSA developed CIRCE (Cloud-based Integrated Reporting and Charting Environment) a cloud-based, HIPAA compliant, electronic client record system. CIRCE allows FSA to manage the complex web of service mandates, documentation requirements, and confidentiality restrictions faced by a large multiservice agency. FSA has further developed CIRCE’s utility by developing a rigorous science-based assessment and care management tool and creating a mobile iPad-based touch screen “kiosk.” This project will support the CIRCE Development Initiative, specifically expanding CIRCE’s one-to-many functionality, increasing the number of behavioral health functions addressed, developing technology to facilitate customization, translating CIRCE’s current assessment diagnosis evaluation planning tool into Spanish, building a marketing plan, and placing CIRCE on the AppExchange.

Grameen Foundation (GF) uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people. GF is a 2010 Salesforce.com Foundation grant recipient. This new project would incorporate lessons learned from their mobile survey activities presently underway in Uganda to create a unique end-to-end data collection and field staff management tool. Specifically, this project willcontinue development of the GF mobile survey application, built on the Salesforce.com platform. This application will create an additional line of business for a growing network of entrepreneurs, offer stakeholders the ability to administer surveys in underserved areas, track trends (e.g., disease outbreaks, food prices) that impact the lives of the urban and rural poor, and pave the way for the development of future mobile applications in the international development field.

Groundwire is a nonprofit consulting organization offering online tools and strategies to environmental groups. It employs an R&D team that develops new software, applications and platforms to engage people in building a sustainable society. This project will expand and enhance existing features, add new elements, and allow more nonprofit organizations to benefit from the Groundwire Engagement Platform that feeds engagement activity into Salesforce CRM through connected tools and services, giving organizations a complete picture of their constituents’ engagement activities, expanding adoption of the Platform by making it compatible with the Nonprofit Starter Pack, and increasing awareness and skills around engagement management in the nonprofit sector.

Seedco is a national organization that advances economic opportunity for people, businesses, and communities in need through workforce development, work and family supports, and services and finances for small businesses. This project is focused on creation of a workforce development application to enable nonprofit organizations across the country to more effectively manage programs that place jobseekers into employment. The initiative will meet a great and growing need for a highly flexible, widely usable application for workforce programming that can help community-based organizations (CBOs) and smaller nonprofits link the supply side of employment with the demand side. The development of a data collection, client management, and benefits screening platform would leverage Seedco’s extensive experience and relationships with CBOs nationwide and help hundreds of nonprofits deliver millions of dollars in benefits to low-income families.