National Community Action Partnership Annual Conference
August 29 to Sept 1, 2017, we attended the Community Action Partnership annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. What a great group of people we were able to hang out with. We were excited to share how an agency can become much more efficient when using our Laserfiche workflow that we have created for CAP agencies. […]
Community Action Partnership Hennepin County Energy Assistance
Community Action Partnership of Hennepin County had been using Laserfiche for over six years. After they processed Energy Assistance applications, they archived them in Laserfiche. After seeing the results that several other CAP’s had experienced when implementing Laserfiche Workflow, they decided that they would do the same. Instead of scanning the applications at the end […]
Laserfiche Connector save a Community Action 40 hours per week
For several years Community Action of Hennepin County had been using Quickfields with cover sheets to automate the scanning of energy assistance application documents. This was much more effective than scanning the documents with standard Laserfiche (Community Action Software) scanning and manually entering the metadata. But after improving other areas of their processes and reducing […]
Community Action Partnership Washington and Ramsey Counties – Cindy Webster and Joy Graff
Replaces filing cabinets with Laserfiche ECM in Weatherization Department What advice would you give a CAP that is fearful of going paperless? “The managers of the programs need to be dedicated to see this project through and have the staff with the abilities to support the transition as this is a long process. Energy […]
Is it time to automate your business expense reporting?
Are your employees frustrated each month when they need to fill out their expense reports? Do your managers have to continually remind people to get their expense report turned in? And does accounting complain about the wad of receipts stapled to the expense reports? There is a much better way to handle this frustrating process. […]
How Laserfiche Workflow Increased One Community Action Agency’s Ability to Help Others
This article was originally published by Meghann Wooster on the Laserfiche website. It is being used with permission and has been modified Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties is a state agency that runs the largest low-income home energy assistance program in Minnesota. This organization helps people who are struggling to pay for […]
Community Action Agency Improve Crisis Response Time
Replaces filing cabinets with Laserfiche ECM Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Tim Wacker The Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) lists a car leasing business and a farmers market among its many innovations to assist the needy in south-central Minnesota. But it is recent innovations in the agency’s information technology department that staff now include […]
Community Action Partnership Suburban Hennepin
Overview Community Action Partnership of Suburban Hennepin (CAPSH) is a community action agency working to improve the lives of low-income people in the suburbs of Hennepin County, Minnesota. CAPSH is one of nearly one thousand community action partnership agencies (CAPs) that operate across the country. These agencies are nonprofit organizations, established under the Economic Opportunity […]
Lakes and Pines Community Action Goes Paperless
Overview Lakes and Pines Community Action Council is a non-profit corporation that offers a variety of programs to assist low-income families and individuals in a seven-county area north of the Twin Cities. They provide assistance to eligible consumers in the following areas: Early childhood and family development; Energy and housing; family loan program; special projects […]