The Impact Suite: For AmeriCorps Programs
You Deserve the Best.
It doesn’t have to be crazy, clunky, or buggy at work. You deserve one functional platform that handles compliance, impact tracking, and story-sharing that is easy to use, that doesn’t eat your budget, and that adjusts to your exact needs.
The One-Stop-Shop.
The Impact Suite handles all your program’s operations in one spot and with ease so you can focus more on what uplifts your heart, feeds your soul, and strengthens your community.
Electronic AmeriCorps Member Files + Document Signing
now includes alumni engagement, host site files, and staff/supervisor files!
Manage and share files safely.
Manage your entire member life-cycle: collect applications, manage member files, and stay connected with alumni
Got Attachments? Need documents signed?
Attach all of the files you need and get documents signed, from applications to member service agreements to background check files.
Experience freedom.
It’s completely customizable and totally intuitive, so everybody on your team will know how to use it in minutes.
Engage & track alumni!
Track, survey, and connect with alumni so you can share powerful stories about your program’s long-term impact on members. Simultaneously, create opportunities for alumni to mentor current members, or engage alums in friend-raising and outreach efforts. And of course, let alumni easily update their contact information, where they’re going to school, where they’re working, and anything else you need.
Manage Staff & Host Site Profiles, Too!
Wouldn’t it be great if, in the same system where your member files lived, host sites signed their MOUs/contracts and profiles for both site supervisors and staff were easily accessible? We’ve got you covered here, too.
AmeriCorps Timesheets
easy to use and compliant via web browser + mobile app!
Exceeds AmeriCorps regulations
The system is fully compliant with the most stringent interpretation of AmeriCorps Agency timesheet regulations
Respects reality
Life happens, so we made our system the only one that allows you to change any settings at any time, even after your program year begins.
Tracks people down for you
Imagine not having to track down members to submit a sheet. Imagine not having to remind site supervisors to review and approve sheets. Our system keeps everybody in the loop, so you don’t have to
Gives members the information they need
What if you didn’t have to inform your members of the number of hours they have left to serve? We take care of that (and more) for you.
Always watching out for you
Our system is the only one that proactively alerts you when a member submits a sheet containing questionable details.
Mobile-friendly and mobile-responsive
Builds reports to your liking
Ours is the only timesheets system built for AmeriCorps that allows you to create truly customized reports.
A mobile app for all.
Designed by members for members, this is the timesheet app built exclusively for AmeriCorps. Whether your members have always-on or close-to-never-on Internet access, this app is for you.
Data+
a tool for impact tracking, case management, volunteer management, and more
Make it easy to share your story.
From performance measurement data to great stories, we have you covered.
Track the progress of each client, beneficiary, volunteer, and/or project.
We make tracking within and across program years a cinch.
Simplify grant writing & reporting to service commissions & other funders.
Get beyond “How many?” and get into “How well?”
Service commissions and the AmeriCorps agency wants more than just numbers these days. We help you see why the numbers are the way they are so you can tell a powerful story and make programming adjustments when needed.
Bring data to your members.
Inform data-driven program-enhancements.
We make sure you have the capacity to put your data to use.
Reflect
a tool to facilitate meaningful reflection
Go beyond the text field.
The most meaningful reflections demand more than a “reflect here” box.
Connect reflections to on-the-ground realities.
Help your members connect their service and service goals to political, economic, and social forces.
Connect to Life After AmeriCorps.
Learn
a tool to facilitate knowledge sharing and ongoing skill development
Enhance member learning and development.
Make sure your members get the targeted support they need when they need it.
Build your program’s institutional memory.
Make sure your members’ best work gets captured for current and future members to benefit from.
Cut out e-mail lists and message boards.
Build a learning community without the hassle of outdated technologies.
Communicate
the national service communications portal
Gets AmeriCorps members and supervisors the info they need
Whether you need to blast out a text or an e-mail, we have you covered.
Meets members where they are (their phones)
Did you know that 88% of e-mails now go unread, while just 2% of texts go unread? Be confident your members are hearing you.
Customer Support
relationships, not account numbers
Meet your new partner & cheerleader.
You’ll have dedicated points of contact here who will get to know every detail of your program so that you can count on us as true members of your team.
No surprises.
We want you to know exactly what you’re paying for, so before a contract is even signed, we’ll customize the Impact Suite for you.
We’re here for you seven days a week.
Our offices are staffed 12 hours a day during the work week, and somebody is always on-call during nights, weekends & holidays.
You’ll hear from us more than we hear from you.
We proactively check in with you throughout the year to learn how we can provide even better services to you and your people.
Pricing
simple, flat-rate pricing
We designed the Impact Suite to be extraordinarily flexible. That flexibility allows you to twist and turn the Impact Suite in any which way to get what you need – without ever having to worry about surprise charges, customization fees, or custom code.
Our simple, flat-rate pricing aligns with your program’s size so that it makes sense for your budget.
The Types of Programs Using the Impact Suite
built-in flexibility for your program’s focus
Disaster Preparation & Relief
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Environment & Conservation
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Food, Nutrition, & Farm-to-School
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Housing Development & Repairs
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Mentoring
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Neighborhood & Economic Development
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Public Health & Wellness
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Youth Leadership Development
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Service Learning
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Veterans Services
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Teacher Residencies
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Tutoring
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Disaster Preparation & Relief
In our first year of working with an American Red Cross chapter, its AmeriCorps program director estimated that we helped her cut back the number of days she spends collecting and compiling data by 24 work days a year. That’s a month’s worth of time! You’d think that she was comparing our system to a paper process, but that isn’t the case. She was using another web-based service — OnCorps Reports — before investing in the Impact Suite.
The program’s director reallocated her extra month towards finally getting to her long-term to do’s: strengthening operations, building deeper relationships with partners, and providing more relevant training to her AmeriCorps members.
Contact us to learn more about our growing work in this field.
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Environment & Conservation
We’re privileged to serve AmeriCorps programs that, on any given day, might be enhancing the trail system in the Grand Canyon or removing invasive species from national parks nationwide.
Yes, these programs use the Impact Suite to stay in compliance with AmeriCorps timesheet and member files regulations. And they’re using the Impact Suite to collect, evaluate and report their most important information and to tell more powerful stories.
But these organizations also partner with us to support and constantly unlock the full potential of their AmeriCorps members.
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Food, Nutrition & Farm-to-School
The AmeriCorps programs we serve in this area, like FoodCorps, are improving health education for children, building school and community gardens, and bringing high-quality local food to public schools.
These programs take advantage of the Impact Suite to:
- Give themselves an easy, flexible way to collect data that demonstrates impact to funders and community stakeholders;
. - Make it easier to collect and use key information that explains how well each program aspect is working;
. - Make sure all departments of the organization – from executives to the programming and development teams – have timely data to do their best work;
. - Ensure that AmeriCorps members on the ground have the support and resources they need to deliver the best services;
. - Build a thriving learning community among members;
. - Create a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among the people providing services; and to
. - Stay compliant with AmeriCorps agency timesheet and member files regulations.
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Housing Repairs & Energy Efficiency
Everybody deserves to live in a safe, healthy home. And AmeriCorps programs working towards that vision deserve a world where systems make AmeriCorps compliance and performance measurement a breeze.
That’s why organizations like Rebuilding Together, Habitat for Humanity of Boise Valley, and Homeless & Housing Coalition of Kentucky use the Impact Suite.
The organizations programs use the Impact Suite to:
- Measure the true impact their members are making each day;
. - Learn what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to be adjusted right away;
. - Build a thriving learning community among their AmeriCorps members;
. - Create a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among members;
. - Make AmeriCorps timesheets a non-issue.
. - Make AmeriCorps member files (enrollment, performance evaluations, exits, and file reviews) simple, efficient, and stress-free.
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Mentoring
The mentoring programs we serve are of all shapes and sizes: community-based, school-based, academic mentoring, college-focused mentoring, professional mentoring, mentoring to prevent opioid use, among others.
Some of the programs we serve work in a single school or city; others work nationwide.
These programs exist to bring meaningful change to their communities, not to wrestle with AmeriCorps compliance.
So they use the Impact Suite to make life better when it comes to staying in compliance while accelerating their impact.
Mentoring programs we serve also have the added benefit of tapping their mentors into the largest curated library of strategies and session plans that was created strictly for volunteers, service-learners, Federal Work/Study students, and national service members.
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Neighborhood & Economic Development
From helping clients with financial counseling, employment and skill training, to providing job placement services and first-time home buyer counseling, organizations like LISC partner with us to:
- Collect the data they need to demonstrate impact to funders and community stakeholders;
. - Collect and use key information to understand how well each program aspect is working for each client and for each neighborhood;
. - Make sure social workers and AmeriCorps members have the support and resources they need to deliver the best services;
. - Build a thriving learning community among social workers and AmeriCorps members;
. - Create a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among AmeriCorps members; and to
. - Make federal AmeriCorps compliance around timesheets and member files non-issues.
Contact us and ask to discuss which of our services might be appropriate for you. If they’re not, we’ll help you find a company whose offerings will help you get what you’re looking for. (We don’t believe in forcing our services on every organization that connects with us.)
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Public Health & Wellness
Public health organizations leading AmeriCorps programs like Wisconsin Primary Healthcare Association and Boston Health Care for the Homeless use the Impact Suite to:
- Easily track, monitor, and communicate their program’s impacts on each client and patient they’re serving;
. - Use their most important data to constantly strengthen and even re-imagine programming so that it’s accomplishing much more tomorrow than it is today;
. - Help stay compliant with federal grant requirements around timesheets and member files; and
. - Keep calm knowing that their data is secure.
Contact us to discuss which of these goals you’re focused on. We’ll then work with you to determine whether our services might be appropriate for you.
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Service-Learning
Since 2003, national service programs with service-learning backbones have used the Impact Suite to to track students’ progress, to engage students in deep reflection, to make sure students have the supports they need to be effective in the field, and to build thriving learning community among students.
And of course, we help programs stay compliant with AmeriCorps timesheet and member files requirements.
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Sports-Based Youth Development
Sports-based youth development programs choose the Impact Suite when they’re looking to address one or more of the following priority areas.
- Collect the data they need to demonstrate impact to funders and community stakeholders
… - Collect and use key information to understand how well each program aspect is working for each athlete
. - Making sure coaches have the support and resources they need to deliver the best services
. - Building a thriving learning community among coaches
. - Creating a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among coaches
. - Get and stay in compliance with AmeriCorps timesheets and member files requirements
Our Chief Customer Officer, Christina Williams Saulter, was the founding Chief Operations Officer of Up2Us’s Coach Across America — an AmeriCorps program with more than 400 members. While at Coach Across America, Christina led the evaluation and implementation of the Impact Suite.
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Teacher Residency Professional Corps
We put an end to the challenge of making sure that principals, instructional coaches, and mentors are on the same page when it comes to developing and supporting new teachers.
That’s why organizations like Teach Western Mass work with us — along with helping the program stay in compliance with AmeriCorps member files requirements.
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Tutoring
Various types of AmeriCorps-funded organizations that deliver tutoring services are using the Impact Suite: universities, school districts, public libraries, community-based nonprofits, national nonprofits, and state government agencies.
Those organizations lead different types of tutoring programs.
- Youth-focused programs range from family literacy, K-12 literacy, math, science and other subjects.
. - Adult-focused organizations we serve offer programs for both native- and non-native English speakers. Programs range from basic English literacy, to GED classes, workplace literacy, health literacy, and financial literacy.
Leaders of tutoring programs choose to partner with us when they’re looking to accomplish one or more of the following goals:
- Collecting and reporting data that demonstrates the program’s impact at the learner and program-wide levels
. - Using data to constantly improve programming
. - Making sure every tutor is equipped with the resources and support to deliver the best services
. - Building a thriving learning community among your tutors
. - Creating a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among your tutors
. - Making it easy to stay in compliance with AmeriCorps timesheets and member files requirements.
Tutoring programs we serve also have the added benefit of tapping their tutors into the largest curated library of strategies and lesson plans that was created strictly for volunteers, service-learners, Federal Work/Study students, and national service members.
Contact us to discuss which of these goals you’re focused on. We’ll then work with you to determine whether our services might be appropriate for you. If they’re not, we’ll help you find a company whose services will help you get what you’re looking for. Your students’ success is what matters most to us.
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Tutoring
Various types of organizations that deliver tutoring services partner with us: universities, school districts, public libraries, community-based nonprofits, national nonprofits, and state government agencies.
Those organizations lead different types of tutoring programs.
- Youth-focused programs range from family literacy, K-12 literacy, math, science and other subjects.
- Adult-focused organizations we serve offer programs for both native- and non-native English speakers. Programs range from basic English literacy, to GED classes, workplace literacy, health literacy, and financial literacy.
Leaders of tutoring programs choose to partner with us when they’re looking to accomplish one or more of the following goals:
- Collecting and reporting data that demonstrates your program’s impact at the learner and program-wide levels
- Using data to constantly improve programming
- Making sure every tutor is equipped with the resources and support to deliver the best services
- Building a thriving learning community among your tutors
- Creating a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among your tutors
Tutoring programs we serve also have the added benefit of tapping their tutors into the largest curated library of strategies and lesson plans that was created strictly for volunteers, service-learners, Federal Work/Study students, and national service members.
Contact us to discuss which of these goals you’re focused on. We’ll then work with you to determine whether our services might be appropriate for you. If they’re not, we’ll help you find a company whose services will help you get what you’re looking for. Your students’ success is what matters most to us.
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Veterans
Veterans-focused programs use the Impact Suite to easily:
- Track, monitor, and communicate their program’s impacts — from the individual client to whole-program level;
. - Use their most important data to constantly strengthen and even re-imagine their programming so that it’s accomplishing much more tomorrow than it is today;
. - Help them stay compliant with federal grant requirements around timesheets and member files; and to
. - Gain immediate awareness when an individual being served is at risk of self-harm or harm within their household.
Organizations and government agencies such as the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs have partnered with us to accomplish these and other goals.
Contact us to discuss which of these goals you’re focused on. We’ll then work with you to determine whether our services might be appropriate for you. If they’re not, we’ll help you find a company whose services will help you get what you’re looking for. Your veterans’ success is what matters to us most.
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Youth Leadership Development
Since 2005, we’ve served youth leadership development programs like Youth Action Project. These programs partner with us to accomplish one or more of the following goals:
- Collecting and reporting data that demonstrate impact
. - Using data to constantly improve programming
. - Making sure every mentor/trainer/coach is equipped with the resources and support to deliver the best services
. - Building a thriving learning community among your mentors/trainers/coaches
. - Creating a culture of intentional reflection, planning, and goal setting among mentors/trainers/coaches
. - Staying in compliance with AmeriCorps timesheets and member files requirements
Contact us to discuss which of these goals you’re focused on. We’ll then work with you to determine whether our services might be appropriate for you.
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Service Commissions
Our work with service commissions has expanded quite significantly over the years — starting out with just grantee progress reports and most recently moving into financial reporting. Learn about our work with commissions.