Member Profile: Chhaya CDC Automates their Housing Counseling Intake with Online Form

Chhaya Community Development Corporation became a HomeKeeper participating organization in Fall 2018, using housing counseling features to complete their reporting requirements for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD).   The organization operates in Queens, New York, home to the fastest-growing South Asian population in the country. Chhaya empowers this community through

Member Profile: Rebuilding Home with New Skills at Habitat Sonoma

AmeriCorps VISTA Kylie Dayton returned to Sonoma County ready to make an impact in her home state. When the Northern California wildfires destroyed over 5,000 homes in her county, she built new skillsets to serve the urgent needs of the local community. Kylie spoke to the HomeKeeper team about the resources that helped her and

Product Spotlight: How Affiliates can track Sweat Equity in HomeKeeper

Franklin Joyce of ElectricBaby Consulting is known for his innovative and creative Salesforce work and has worked with over ten HomeKeeper users including Habitat for Humanity Austin and Greater San Francisco. As Franklin has worked with Habitat affiliates, he’s found that most still rely on complicated, manually tallied paper receipts to track sweat equity for

Member Profile: Mountainlands Community Housing Trust Saves Time By Eliminating Paper Forms

Recently we had the opportunity to interview Mountainlands Community Housing Trust’s Program Manager Brian Guyer.   He was part of the  HomeKeepers’ Form Assembly working group and has incorporated an online application into his approval process.   He works with a very small team and saw an online application form as a way to save

Member Profile: How did Hello Housing save their staff 200 hours while processing 450 applications?

Recently we had the opportunity to interview a member of HomeKeepers’ FormAssembly working group, Matt Warner, Program Director for Hello Stewardship, a program of Hello Housing. He is responsible for determining applicant eligibility and coordinating the  loan process. His innovative online application process has saved at least 200 hours of staff time, provided more information