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Why Community Action Agencies Are Personal to Me

People sometimes ask me why I’m so passionate about working with Community Action Agencies (CAPs) and nonprofits. Some of them don’t quite get it. They see limited budgets, funding challenges, and complicated processes, so they wonder why I would focus so much of my career on organizations with fewer resources than private businesses. My answer

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Community Action Agencies – Scanning To PDF Is Not Really Going Paperless

Scanning to PDF and Storing Them On Your Network Doesn’t Mean You Went Paperless If your agency scanned everything to PDF, I have some news you may not love: you’re not paperless. I know that’s hard to hear after all the work your team put in. The good news is that the fix is simpler

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Paperless Energy Assistance Application Processing

        Is going paperless in your energy assistance department sound like a wonderful idea but you don’t know if it is possible.   We have helped a number of Community Action Agencies go paperless and we have automated their energy assistance application approval process.   Here is a detailed description of our

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My friends laughed at me when they heard I was going to be audited!

Several years ago, I got a letter that my business was going to have a random sales tax audit. When I shared the news with several of my friends that were also business owners, they laughed and predicted that the auditors would find all kinds of things that would cost me additional taxes and fines.

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