Google for Nonprofits stories: Thrive DC

I think one of the most important services is that this is a community people come here to see friends they come to see staff get a hug and while that seems like a really small thing it's it's really not we are a homo services organization we provide support services to vulnerable populations in the Washington Metropolitan Area Drive offers a variety of services throughout the day folks and get a hot meal sandwiches and salads food to go they can take showers they can do laundry they can see cas

e managers they can get referrals for other services throughout the city our goal was to create as much of a one-stop shop as possible advances in technology have really helped us accomplish the goals that we've set for the organization I think I know Google tools the everything that we use from Gmail to hang out to add grants really makes our work easier we have a small staff we're serving a huge client community and it serves seven days a week so you'll have a really no place to go on you're h

omeless like I am do you have to eat somewhere so this is where I call efficiency for us is key the ad Grants Program is helping us drive much more traffic to our website so we've seen double-digit percent increases in our online fundraising for each of the past two years and we really attribute that to ad grants all of our scheduling is done on the Google Calendar and when you're scheduling you know if close to 2,000 volunteers a year you need something that really is comprehensive when someone

gets housing we often like to have them come in and bring their key you it is such an enlightened moment you know to have a place of your own because there's so much stigma that comes with being homeless small donations make big differences here the money that I don't have to spend on Google products or Google services or the advantages that those things bring to us I can spend on real-time services for people who are desperately in need of them and Google helps us get that done you