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35 lines
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title: The Clearinghouse Management System
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url: http://tcms.us
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summary: Assists a needs clearinghouse in connecting people with needs to people that can help meet those needs
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category: Web Sites and Applications
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isInactive: true
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noLink: true
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frontPage:
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display: false
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technologies:
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- PHP:
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for: the TCMS application logic
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- WordPress:
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for: publicly-facing pages and authentication
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- PostgreSQL:
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for: application data storage
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- MySQL:
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for: WordPress data storage
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### The Client
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Love INC of South Albuquerque runs a “needs clearinghouse”; they have volunteers who accept donations, and people contact them with their needs. They are then able to match the person who needs something with that thing, or with someone who can assist them.
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### The Problem
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The files in their offices were multiplying; ensuring people’s needs are not missed, while ensuring that their clients were not taking advantage of their services, required a lot of paper. They were tracking volunteers on a spreadsheet, but their contact info was in yet another file. Having worked with us on the <nuxt-link to="/solutions/nsx" title="Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition • Bit Badger Solutions">“Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition”</nuxt-link>, and thought that the solution we developed for that project would help them.
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### The Solution
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We adapted NSXapp to handle an ongoing stream of people, volunteers, and donations. This enabled them to spend more time with the people who needed help. The WordPress front end also served as their public website, and allowed them to manage the volunteers who were using the system.
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### The Epilogue
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Love INC of South Albuquerque found a SalesForce system that would do things very similar to TCMS, and was able to get in on a program that let them use it at no cost; TCMS was decommissioned in 2014.
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