Intersections Conference 2017: Sharing our Data and Connecting with Users

This month our organization, Grounded Solutions Network, held its annual Intersections conference in Oakland from October 9-12. This conference brought together policy makers, residents, Community Land Trusts, Habitat for Humanity Affiliates and cities from across the country to learn and speak about long term affordable housing. Our HomeKeeper team attended the conference and had a

An Intro from Cheryl Curry

  Hello, HomeKeeper users! Each day, I am delighted to meet more of you and learn about your communities. The power and impact of HomeKeeper is exciting to me, and I’m glad to be here. I look forward to working with Tiffany, Valerie, and the other people who make HomeKeeper strong, including you. To introduce

Some Useful Links for You to Get Started

It seems like you’re running a default WordPress website. Here are a few useful links to get you started: Migration How to use WordPress Migrator Plugin? Migrate WordPress from Siteground to Cloudways Migrate WordPress from GoDaddy to Cloudways General How do I take my website live from Cloudways? How to manage WordPress via WP-CLI on

A ‘See You Later’

  The HomeKeeper team and I wanted to let the HomeKeeper community know that I’ll be leaving my position with the team on August 16 to start a graduate degree in urban planning at MIT this fall. It’s exciting, but I will miss the work we do here on the HomeKeeper team. I’ve been in

HomeKeeper Housing Counseling Update – Join our Early Adopter Program!

We are excited to announce our Early Adopter Program for our newly developed housing counseling features. HomeKeeper  is a HUD-Approved housing counseling system currently being piloted by four organizations. Our new Early Adopter Program will expand our housing counseling community to include our next cohort of organizations. Early Adopters selected to participate will be able

HomeKeeper: Building a Data-Driven Sector

Spreadsheets and more spreadsheets. For One Roof Community Housing in Minnesota, this traditional method of managing the organization’s large amounts of affordable housing information simply wasn’t working. “We had a number of different Excel spreadsheets that individual employees would keep up on their own that pertained to their own needs,” said Julie Petrusha, the housing

Join our next Habitat for Humanity webinar: Making Permanent Affordability Work

Our organization, Grounded Solutions Network, partnered with Habitat for Humanity International to help produce Habitat’s 2017 Shelter Report which makes a compelling argument for creating homes that stay permanently affordable to benefit generation after generation of low-income home buyers. Building on this report, Grounded Solutions Network will be hosting a webinar in May for Habitat affiliates interested

HomeKeeper: A case study for developing a HUD compliant CMS on Salesforce

          Daizylogik recently published a case study on how HomeKeeper became a HUD compliant CMS for housing counseling. This story is featured on the Daizylogik blog and discusses the work that Daizylogik and SoPact did as developers along with an advisory board of HomeKeeper users to develope functionality needed by our users to track their housing counseling

2016 HomeKeeper Recap and 2017 Roadmap

For over five years, HomeKeeper has helped you manage your programs more efficiently and report on your impacts with ease. Through the years, we’ve remained committed to our core belief that better data begets brighter insights, smarter decisions and bigger impacts. And we’ve also learned that better systems…

Visit HomeKeeper at International Habitat for Humanity Conference in March

The Grounded Solutions Network staff will be exhibiting and presenting at the International Habitat for Humanity Conference this spring from March 27-30, 2017. If you are interested in HomeKeeper or learning more about the resources Grounded Solutions Network provides,  we’d love to connect with you.  Here are a few options for finding us: Attend our session –