PROGRESS RESOURCES INC.

Management and Training  

for Nonprofit Organizations 

What does it mean to be poor? Currently there are two basic ways to define poverty.  To get a better measure of who needs help — and a better sense of how to provide it — society needs a third definition.

The first definition is absolute poverty — essentially, material destitution. Human beings need food, water and shelter, and if we can’t afford these things, life is pretty miserable. In the U.S., the federal government has poverty gu...

A Decision Maker’s Guide to Managing Multiple Databases,

A study done by the "Managing Multiple Databases Task Force"

February 2001

This is an exerpt from the study:

The need to manage multiple databases is an historical and on-going challenge.

During the early years of the information age, many Community Action Agencies (CAA’s) purchased and/or built databases to address their needs. Over the years, funding sources began to re...

Fall 2011 - report created for the Agency-Wide Information Systems Panel

This is an exerpt from the study published by the AIMS Panel:

During 2010-2011, the Agency-Wide Information Management Systems (AIMS) panel reviewed the current status of “enterprise” software systems used in states and agencies across the Community Action network. The AIMS panel works to encourage ongoing national collaboration on the topic of building capacity in the criti...