Sponsor Feature Story: Impact Makers

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Impact Makers is a unique management and technology consulting firm committed to contributing 100% of net profits to the community over the life of the company. Their community contributions rival companies a hundred times their size due to this revolutionary model. To date, Impact Makers has contributed nearly $3 million in direct financial support and … Read more

Seeking UR or VCU student with Work Study for Nonprofit Management Internship

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IT4Causes prides ourselves on our ability to give meaningful work opportunities to local college students to gain real-world experience while helping local nonprofits.  We’re approved Federal Work Study partners with both VCU and the University of Richmond, and we are currently seeking a FWS eligible student to help us with running our business.  See the … Read more

Calling all Federal Work Study Students! We’re Hiring!

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IT4Causes is proud to be an off-campus Federal Work Study agency with both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond. Our past and present interns have great things to say about their experiences with us (just scroll back in time on our blogs to see).  We’re now seeking students for the 2018-19 academic year … Read more

Meet Our New Intern: Abhishek

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  IT4Causes is proud to introduce our newest intern! When asked about why he chose IT4Causes, this is what he had to say: Hi everyone, my name is Abhishek and I serve as an Information Technology Implementation Intern at IT4Causes. I am currently a student at the University of Richmond and plan to major in Computer … Read more

Meet Our New Partner: VECF

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  The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF) is a non-partisan organization that focuses on advancing school readiness by developing innovative initiatives to ensure a quality early start for all children across the state of Virginia. VECF is working with IT4Causes to solve the various challenges we face with our technology. IT4Causes conducted an IT assessment … Read more

Our New Partner: Side By Side

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IT4Causes recently started working with Side By Side. We asked Ted Lewis, Side By Side’s Executive Director, to tell us more about their agency and why they decided to use IT4Causes to help with their IT strategy and project needs. “Side by Side (formerly ROSMY) works to create supportive communities where Virginia’s LGBTQ+ youth can … Read more

Volunteer of the Year 2017: Terry Barker

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As announced at Tech4All 2.0, we would like to congratulate our VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR 2017, Terry Barker. He is a native Okie, but lived in Virginia for over 30 years now, so he can safely say that he and his family have successfully migrated. He was a high school teacher, oilfield hand, wheat combine … Read more

Meet Our Sponsor – Robert Half

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We are happy to have Robert Half Technology as a sponsor for Tech4All 2.0. Read this blog post for more information about them, their mission, and come meet them on Nov. 9th! . Founded in 1948, Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm with more than 400 staffing and consulting locations worldwide. Our … Read more

Meet Our Intern: Haamid Shaikh

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My name is Haamid Shaikh and I’m a senior at the University of Richmond. I’m currently pursuing a major in Economics with a concentration in Finance. My role at IT4Causes is as a Business Development Intern. I value this role because it helps me gain important career-related experience while making an impact in the community … Read more

Summer 2017 Interns: Scott, John, and Jasleen

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Scott My name is Scott Su. My role with IT4Causes was the Nonprofit Management Intern. In this role, I was responsible for marketing and event planning. On the marketing, my job was to draft messages for social media and create presentation slides and videos for promoting the company. On the event planning side, I was … Read more

Meet our New Intern

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Hello there! My name is Hien Vo. I am a junior at the Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in International Studies with a concentration in Social Justice. For this upcoming academic year, I am excited in gaining more knowledge through the education my major offers as well as gaining new experiences by being a Nonprofit Management … Read more

Interview with Partnership for Families

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Partnership for Families (PFF) provides resources for vulnerable families with young children to ensure a solid education while creating safe and healthy environments for children to grow and thrive. PFF partners with other organizations that engage in early literacy and learning that will benefit families to better support their children. A challenge that PFF faces … Read more

Volunteer opportunities for IT4Causes!

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IT4Causes is a nonprofit organization that is also an IT consulting firm. We work to understand our nonprofit agencies’ needs and deliver the most useful services to improve their outcomes. With an organization like us, we are always looking for and reaching out to volunteers and those who are interested in working with us. Here … Read more

Let Freedom Ring!

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As the 4th of July is upon us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on freedom, and what it means to us at IT4Causes.  We believe that people helping people is one of the things that makes this country great, and we’re here to enable people in information technology to do this on their … Read more

Meet One of Our New Interns

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Hello! My name is John Rymer, and I am excited to be serving as one of the Nonprofit Management Interns for the summer. I am a rising senior studying Business Management and Marketing at the University of Richmond. This summer, I’ll get to help IT4Causes with reaching new partners and foundations, and hopefully gain some … Read more

What Are Nonprofits Saying About IT4Causes

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The partnerships with our local nonprofits have been very successful. We interviewed our clients about the services that we provided, and how we helped these organizations thrive. Let’s hear what some of our happy customers have to say about IT4Causes and the impact that we helped create! If you are interested in learning more about … Read more

New Partner: Leadership Metro Richmond

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We are excited to announce our new partnership with Leadership Metro Richmond Leadership Metro Richmond is a regional chapter that focuses on community leadership development and engagement organization. LMR was started in 1980 to improve racial, gender, and socio-economic divides in our area’s community leadership. LMR conducts a 10 month leadership development program called Leadership … Read more

ReEstablish Richmond Community Summit

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IT4Causes conducted a Community Summit on IT Investment. We had many amazing nonprofit partners attend as we shared our progress and plans for the future. We also recorded some of our partners speaking some of the things that were discusses. Above is linked a video of Kate Ayers describing a small portion of the impact that IT4Causes has been able to have on ReEstablish Richmond. ReEstablish Richmond strives to provide culturally competent services to refugees who have been resettled in Richmond. They design every program with specific strategies to meet their diverse needs. Supplying them with all the tools they will need to successfully maneuver an thrive, ReEstablish Richmond works to support refugees and help break down the barriers along their path to self-sufficiency.

IT4Causes is proud to have helped Reestablish Richmond with a wide variety of assistance, including converting to Office 365 email, setting up a fundraising system, and integrating many different spreadsheets into a more comprehensive client tracking system. To do this work, we leveraged a small grant from Flashpoint Fund.

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Subscription For Event Series

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Hello to all of IT4Causes, supporters, volunteers, and peers! We are so excited to announce our new Traveling Events Series!

This series will be held on different dates from April  to November and throughout the series you will be able to enjoy various unique experiences with food, drinks, networking opportunities, and some pretty exciting amusements that will create an unforgettable time at different locations all around Richmond. We will have live music performances at the Firehouse Theater, go riding on a Canal Cruise downtown,  share a belated Fourth of July barbecue at Ardent Craft Ales, and enjoy the sunset from the rooftop at 804RVA. The series finale will be our Tech4All 2.0 event, where you’ll get to meet many of the nonprofits we serve while also discovering some cool new technologies.  This is definitely something that you do not want to miss, so to ensure that you can guarantee your spot at every event, we are offering a special Event Series Subscription.

Subscriptions give you guaranteed admission to all events and cover all food, drinks, and entertainment for each event, as well as early access to networking.  Plus you get access to all 5 events (and perhaps a subscriber-only event, too) for the price of just 4.  If you’re unable to make one event, Subscriptions give you the ability to transfer your admission to a friend or colleague who might want to come instead. Subscriptions also include a number of Plus 1 tickets to each event that allow you to bring friends at a discounted rate.

If the subscription option isn’t the right fit for you, there is still the option to buy tickets for each individual event (not at the great cost offered by the Subscription though). Tickets include the coverage of food and drink as well as the chance to network with different nonprofits and small businesses. However, no matter what option you choose, everyone will be able to have unique experiences and entertainments for every event.

We can’t wait to present our Traveling Series to you! We guarantee it will not be one to miss!!

Click here to Subscribe!

Sponsorship Event Series

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IT4Causes is excited to kick off our 2017 Event Series! This event series will be unique as we will hold numerous events starting in April and ending in November in different unique locations throughout Richmond. This event series is meant to enable fundraising and multiple networking opportunities for all those who participate. However, we cannot … Read more

Highlighting Our Community: Keith Reynolds

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It4Causes is excited to highlight Keith Reynolds. Keith is one of the co-founders of Synapse Hubs, a networking platform that seeks to create connections between small businesses and nonprofit organizations. We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Keith and interview him on the amazing work that he is accomplishing in Richmond. Keith … Read more

Our New Client : United Spinal Association

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IT4Causes is excited to present one of our newest clients, the United Spinal Association Chapter in Richmond, Virginia. Their mission is to support and provide resources to people with Spinal Cord Injury/Disease (SCI/D) and assist them in achieving their highest level of health, independence and quality of life. They also provide support and educate the … Read more

Valentines Day:  We love our supporters

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It’s Valentine’s Day! and we at IT4Causes just want to give a huge shoutout to say that We Love Our Supporters! To everyone that has volunteered for us. To all who have sponsored and donated. To anyone that has attended any of our events. To our amazing partner agencies and those who have helped us network … Read more

February Volunteer Newsletter

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We hope your off to a great new year! Last year was a great year for us and we hope it was a good year for you as well. Thanks to your generous gifts of time and talent, IT4Causes served 22 agencies across the Richmond area! As the new year gets rolling, we hope you’ll … Read more

IT4Causes is Hiring and Recruiting Volunteers for Lynchburg, VA!

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IT4Lynchburg

There’s a new way to get IT done for nonprofits, and it’s coming to Lynchburg.  Help IT4Causes enable Region 2000 agencies to become more effective and efficient using a proven model for success.  Because most nonprofits can’t afford their own Chief Information Officers and full-time technology staff, we give them access to top-notch IT professionals through contracts that blend paid and pro bono experts, volunteers, and workforce development participants.  We’ve been using awesome people, great technology, and best practices to deliver world-class information technology solutions to nonprofits in Richmond for over two years, and now we’re looking to expand our impact into the Lynchburg-Roanoke region.  We need civic-minded IT professionals of all skill levels and disciplines to help us make good programs better & improve the lives of many in the region.  Here’s who we need to make it happen:

IT Director/Fractional CIO for Nonprofits (paid position)
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We’re looking for an IT leader with broad experience in technology, who can think strategically, plan tactically, manage practically, as well as perform some system administration tasks.  We’ll provide you with at least one initial nonprofit client in Lynchburg to get you started, and help you identify and land additional work with other agencies in the region.

Our ideal candidate has the following attributes:

Skills:

  • Consultant-grade ability to listen, understand current technology capabilities, follow emerging industry trends, and envision new approaches
  • Core knowledge across many technical disciplines, including networks, communications, info security, systems administration, client-server, and cloud-based solutions
  • Knowledge and ability to support Windows servers, third-party applications, networks, security systems, virus protection, and hardware configurations
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-IT audiences
  • Unending desire to learn new technologies as well as troubleshoot and maintain existing ones
  • Excellent written and verbal communications as well as presentation skills
  • Outgoing personality that builds professional networks across organizations
  • Exceptional project and time management skills to work with multiple clients and projects simultaneously
  • Confidence to make informed decisions

Experience:

  • Proven leader of organizations, projects, and people, including volunteers
  • 10+ years leading/deploying 3rd party applications to solve for business needs and/or managing IT operations
  • Some experience recruiting and managing volunteers as well as staff
  • Demonstrated capability to sell strategic IT improvements to non-IT customers

Values:

  • Cares about having an Impact
  • Values collaboration over competition
  • Loves innovating and start-up thinking, especially to benefit the community
  • Appreciates the experience and knowledge of others
  • Believes in developing others through mentorship and guidance

Full compensation will be dependent upon ability to help close deals for additional work at new clients.  We offer help with health insurance premiums, and an unparalleled opportunity for IT professionals to have an impact in their communities.  If this sounds like you, and you’re looking for a unique way to be a force for good through technology, please contact IT4Causes CEO Tom Anderson at 804.241.2555  or Thomas.anderson@IT4Causes.org.  We look forward to hearing from you soon!


 

 

 

IT Pro Bono Experts and Skilled IT Volunteers

IT4Causes’ success depends on the service of community-minded IT professionals who are willing to commit their time and expertise in bite-sized chunks to help nonprofits better serve their missions.  If you’ve got IT knowledge and would like to volunteer, IT4Causes is here to guide you to the right opportunity.  Our staff are expert at taking the business requirements of nonprofits, identifying solutions, and breaking projects into small tasks for individual volunteers.  In general, we try to break work into pieces that the right volunteers can execute in 8 hours or less, over the course of 2 weeks.  Once that commitment is done, you can take on more or walk away knowing your time and talent contribution will be combined with the work of others as part of a sustainable solution for a great cause.  While we are actively seeking to build a base of IT pros in Central Virginia, most of our current assignments could be performed remotely. Our volunteer needs are constantly evolving with our client and project base, and right now we’re looking for volunteers with skills in these areas:

  • IT Consulting
  • Networks
  • Windows Small Business Server and Exchange Server
  • IT Security
  • End-user support
  • IT Project Management
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Access and/or SQL Database
  • Case Management Systems
  • CRM and fundraising solutions

If you’re ready to use your IT skills to help those who serve your community, please visit www.IT4Causes.org/volunteer and complete our volunteer application.

Better Housing Coalition

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BHC

Founded in 1988, Better Housing Coalition is the Richmond region’s largest not-for-profit community development corporation. Their mission is to change lives and transform communities by combining long term solutions with high-quality, affordable housing and ongoing support services for residents.

Better Housing Coalition’s focus is to build more than just a building but to create buildings that individuals can call home. Driven by respect for residents, community, and the environment; the Better Housing Coalition use sustainable materials while preserving neighborhood character in order to allow seniors to age in place, families to prosper financially, and children to aspire to bright futures. They are dedicated to tending to distinct resident needs through becoming permanent residents of the community and developing long lasting relationships. Better Housing Coalition rebuilds communities from the inside out to ensure the practice of healthy vibrant communities inclusive to all. Better Housing Coalition believes that by doing so they are able to build a better future with lasting change one brick at a time.

IT4Cause is helping BHC’s employees get access to internal company data by building an Intranet using Microsoft’s SharePoint technology.  We’ve engaged a pro bono SharePoint expert from Impact Makers, who is bringing a great process to the effort, facilitating conversations with the client, and teaching our interns how to build individual department pages.  One intern has developed mocks of what the pages will look like, so customer expectation are set appropriately, and we’re providing training so that BHC staff can maintain this system on their own going forward.  So far, everyone loves the process and the output, and we expect to wrap up the effort in a couple weeks, leaving the agency with a great way to communicate with their own people.

For more information on BHC, please visit their website http://www.betterhousingcoalition.org
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IT4Causes Is Proud To Introduce Our New Intern

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In order to invest in the Richmond community and continue our efforts of paying it forward, IT4Causes has opted to hire another VCU student to intern for us.

Introducing Amanda Barnes, she is a senior who is currently embarking upon completion of her last semester at VCU. She is majoring in Painting and Printmaking with a double minor in Art History and Gender Women’s Studies. Amanda expressed that she has always had a passion for the arts as well as community service. She aspires to combine these two joy of hers in hopes to help and empower her community .

Amanda will be apart of our management and social media sector. By utilizing her skills as a trained artist combined with her innovative ideas, she will to help promote IT4Causes events and ideals to continue to help bring new information technology solutions to other nonprofits in order to help them better achieve their missions.

Upon graduation Amanda looks forward to continuing to work with other nonprofits in order to advocate for changes needed as well as address different issues that the Richmond through her practice in art.

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Why it’s important to log your IT4Causes volunteer hours

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Last year was a great year for us and we hope it was a good year for you.
Thanks to your generous gifts of time and talent, IT4Causes was able to serve 22 agencies across the Richmond area in 2016.

While skills and time are invaluable direct contributions to our agencies, did you know that your volunteer hours also support our agencies in other ways, too? Logging your volunteer hours allow IT4Causes to:
• Build business plans that show how we offer low cost solutions using skilled volunteers
• Provide the details we need when writing grants that also support our work
• Document the project recaps required by our sponsoring companies
• Provide accurate reporting to the IRS to support our 503c status

So…. please log those volunteer hours. Your time matters, and so does the data about your time!

Use this conveniently provided link to enter any hours you have volunteered for us. If you are retracing steps, exact dates don’t matter, but please be sure to reflect the number of hours you gave in each month as accurately as possible.

If activity covers more than one day in a month, please use last date you volunteered in that month. Please use a separate entry for each month.

Some employers like Capital One provide a donation to nonprofits based on the hours volunteers log into their systems.  If you work for one of these firms, please be sure to record your service hours in that system, too, and please consider designating the funds to IT4Causes (our tax ID 47-1992190 in case your employer needs it).

Finally, be sure to check out our current volunteer opportunities.

Thank you as always for your gift of time and talent.  We simply couldn’t serve the community like we do without your help!