ShareAction - Making the World a Better Place On-Demand
In this blog posting, I’d like to review ShareMethods’ initial efforts to make the world a better place… this is a starting point above and beyond the ongoing development of our on-demand document management and collaboration services and our work to support satisfied customers. We have a program called ShareAction. ShareAction strives to make contributions to the broader community and environment in which the company operates. The idea behind ShareAction is to promote a culture of concern and action for the broader community that is directly integrated into the fabric of the company. The first phase of ShareAction is to (1) define key areas of focus for making contributions and (2) to provide free ShareMethods service for qualifying non-profits in these specific areas. Additional phases of ShareAction will be introduced over time. ShareAction has the following focus areas:
It is with great pride that I introduce the first member of the ShareAction program - Pacific Swimming. Pacific Swimming is a local committee of USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of competitive swimming. Pacific Swimming is a nonprofit representing more than 17,000 athletes and supported by hundreds of volunteers located in Northern California and Nevada. Pacific Swimming funds swimming programs and community pools in areas of need. One of the programs proudly funded by Pacific Swimming is the Oakland Community Pools Project. Swimming skills are considered not only fitness skills by Pacific Swimming, but also life saving skills, both of which are vitally important to children across the country. Pacific Swimming also seeks to develop swimming skills for minorities and underprivileged children, where there is an especially significant need to develop swimming and life saving skills.
Pacific Swimming has used ShareMethods through the ShareAction program for a variety of key initiatives including development of a swim guide, and support of an important outreach program.Don Power, General Chairman of Pacific Swimming states, “We’ve been very busy for the past six months figuring out the best ways to use our new salesforce license as well as our new ShareMethods license. To encourage our volunteer workforce to familiarize themselves with Share Methods, we used it for our most recent project—our annual swim guide. This guide compiles information and documents, maintained by a variety of volunteers, for all of our club and individual members. ShareMethods enabled everyone with a stake in any section of the guide to review, log comments, and approve those sections before publication. The service was incredibly useful and popular”.
Don also added: “Because of our success using ShareMethods to manage our annual guide, we are just now implementing the service for our outreach program. With ShareMethods, Pacific Swimming has been better able to coordinate efforts of its outreach committee, a committee spread throughout Northern California. It helps us to manage forms, including requests for funding that are received, as well as to track the documented progress of the programs that they support. ShareMethods’ Internet document management services are integral to our ability to manage the expansion of our outreach efforts. We are very grateful to salesforce.com and to ShareMethods for their generous license donations. The fact that the two applications work so well together makes our lives much easier.”
We’d like to encourage the support of Pacific Swimming and their work to make the world a better place. Hopefully through our support we can help them achieve their goals more quickly, easily, and of course more cost-effectively. We would also like to invite other qualifying non-profits to contact us regarding participation in ShareAction.
