July 14, 2009

New Website!


The new Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services website is now open for business.

We began the design process way back in November, thinking that the site would be done in January. Ha! It has been a long learning process for me and the various Board and Communications Committee members that are involved. Most of us have little website design experience but all of us have plenty of opinions :) Draft after draft I believe we have crafted a site that is more user friendly and visually appealing. We could not have done it without the creativity and expertise of our new friends at Blue Water Media.

Now we are in the final round of revisions and we are looking for everyone's perspective. So please check out our new site and give us your opinion on the survey via the feedback link on every page.
Posted by Tom on July 14, 2009 @ 1:37 PM | 0 Comments | Post a comment

July 6, 2009

Resetting Expectations

Wow - it is July, the first month of our new fiscal year. We are working from a new budget and in light of the financial climate, our Emergency Services program is targeted to provide about the same level of total dollars throughout the year. The change is that it will serve fewer families with a higher level of assistance per family. We're all still getting used to it.

When I came in the door this morning, I learned that we hit our budgeted amount of families for the month in the first two days we did intake applications. That is a high volume of requests for assistance, and our staff and volunteers are obviously efficient. (Hooray for the team that is getting it done effectively and efficiently!) It also means that for the rest of the month, we provide a lot of informal counseling and guidance, but not so much direct financial assistance.

Our board and senior staff have talked a lot about this dynamic. While everyone wants to provide more assistance, finding the additional money needed is our stumbling block.
Posted by Shannon Steene on July 6, 2009 @ 8:50 AM | 0 Comments | Post a comment
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