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ReEstablish Richmond Community Summit

May 10, 2017 by

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.

Subscription For Event Series

March 27, 2017 by

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

March 17, 2017 by

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

March 15, 2017 by

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

March 9, 2017 by

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

February 14, 2017 by

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

January 31, 2017 by

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!

January 26, 2017 by Wakerr2

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 3^rd 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

January 25, 2017 by

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

January 23, 2017 by

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.