We have exciting news for our users, especially those who use our HomeKeeper support over the course of the year. This fall, two of our Support Staff, Cheryl Curry and Valerie Rogers, received new certifications from Salesforce. What does this mean for our users? It means that we now have additional certifications to be able… Read More »
Intersections 2018: Hands-On Training and Skill Building
October 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment
This month our organization, Grounded Solutions Network, held its annual Intersections conference in Pittsburgh, PA from October 1-4. 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 was busy at the conference – here… Read More »
Solution Spotlight: Reporting HomeKeeper Data to HUD and NeighborWorks
March 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
HomeKeeper was excited to launch our Housing Counseling features in 2017, which gave our 10 Early Adopters the ability to report directly to HUD. We quickly discovered many organizations have reporting requirements in addition to or separate from HUD, which means their counseling data had to be prepared for intermediaries, such as NeighborWorks. Often, client’s… Read More »
Build Your Career Using HomeKeeper on Salesforce
March 7, 2018 By Leave a Comment
HomeKeeper Skills are Marketable Skills When you’re entering program information into HomeKeeper, creating and placing custom fields, or finalizing a report, you are actually learning skills applicable to some of the top 10 jobs in the world. HomeKeeper is built on Salesforce, an incredibly popular CRM cloud technology, used worldwide by nonprofits, businesses, and places… Read More »
Join our next Habitat for Humanity webinar: Making Permanent Affordability Work
May 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment
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… Read More »
Make Better Reports in Salesforce, Faster! (Part I)
October 2, 2015 By Leave a Comment
In case you missed it, at last week’s HomeKeeper Office Hours, we highlighted our top tips for HomeKeeper users who are looking to make better reports, faster. Reports in Salesforce are the easiest way to leverage your data, and start digging into it to see what it means in practice. These tips will help you… Read More »
How HomeKeeper makes social impact data work–for frontline staff and for an entire sector
March 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Originally posted on the What Counts for America blog, reposted with permission. Homestead Community Land Trust’s staff were confident they were meeting their overall targets in providing homeownership opportunities for low-income households in Seattle–that is, until they opened a report that showed their data in context. They weren’t meeting their goals of serving Hispanic families…. Read More »
Just Released: The 2014 Social Impact Report
October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Over the past 5 years, Cornerstone Partnership has been coordinating an ambitious effort to collect key performance data from shared equity homeownership programs across the US, including Community Land Trusts, deed restriction programs, shared appreciation loan programs, and Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives. Today we are releasing the culmination of that work, the HomeKeeper 2014 Sector-Wide Social Impact Report. This report consolidates detailed data from 53 affordable homeownership programs… Read More »
