Colorado Campus Compact

NATIONAL DATA TRACKING SYSTEMS

Texas Campus Compact

• Texas has begun developing a system for their members. Attached is a proposal created by a contractor, CSO. CSO proposes that it provide each participating campus with their own system, branded to their university, and managed by staff on the campus (with support from CSO’s services staff). Each school would promote their site to the students on campus, and encourage local non-profits to register and post opportunities to the students on their campus. As part of the Texas Campus Compact, each school would also receive a feed of volunteer opportunities
  directly from the Texas Campus Compact central system (powered by a CSO Consortium module) which were entered by large state- and national non-profit organizations.

  CSO has already mocked up a version of its product for this purpose. Here is the login information to access that
  system:
  Login address: https://www.myinterfase.com/demo_campuscompact/admin
  Login User Name: csoadmin
  Login User Password: admin

  Florida Campus Compact

  • On the heals of a disastrous FL|CC pilot experience with Service-learning Pro and of me personally helping to create a database at Miami Dade College, I have to say that Sweat Monkey seems like a great option.
  • Some of them have developed their own databases that interact with the Registrar’s office. The most sophisticated one I know off the top of my head is Service-Learning Application on the Web (SLAW) developed by Miami Dade College. They did invest quite a bit in developing the site, so for those campuses that are limited financially and time-wise we are cautiously optimistic about SweatMonkey.org. It is a logging system for students, faculty, and community partners. It helps people to find opportunities and verify the hours they have worked.

  Utah Campus Compact

   

  • Weber State University has been quite happy with a database called Volgistics. Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski, co-director of the Community Involvement Center there, could give you more details. Her number is 801-626-7737; e-mail is bkowalewski [at] weber [dot] edu.
  • The Thayne Center at Salt Lake Community College uses a database called Service-Learning Pro. The Bennion Center at the University of Utah used to use Service-Learning Pro, too, but haven’t for a couple of years. Gail Jessen, director of the Thayne Center, would be the person to talk with about it. Her phone is 801-957-4689; e-mail is gail [dot] jessen [at] slcc [dot] edu.

   
  

  Indiana Campus Compact

   

  • I’m not sure if this is the type of database you are looking for, but here is a resource from the Presidential Service Awards. https://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/tgact/ros/dspROSlogin.cfm 

   
  

  Ohio Campus Compact

   

  • I know this is a little unusual, but Kentucky and Ohio higher ed institutions are just starting to experiment with using the electronic system created by UGive, an organization that was started to track/document high school service hours. http://www.ugive.org/  (There may be other states involved, I just don’t know about that.)

   
  

  National Campus Compact

   

  • While I personally haven't used it, many schools use Volunteer Match: www.volunteermatch.org.  Idealist.org has a great section called "Keeping on Course: Tracking and Evaluation"--you can scroll down to it from here: http://www.idealist.org/en/vmrc/bestpractices/developingprogram.html.  In that section, there are sample tracking systems, as well as a link to a comprehensive list of software options.

   
  

  CCC- Jami

   

  • Sounds like all the stuff our database can do, but that would require you to develop your own program with a programmer.
  • When I was a volunteer manager, the organization I worked for used Blackbaud, which I believe is software to track fundraising for nonprofits.  If I remember correctly, there’s a volunteer module you can purchase that enhances the basic software.  I really liked the software – it was easy to use, and reminded me a lot of using MSAccess.  I can’t remember if there was a function to track site placements/community partners, though.  We used it to track our in-house volunteers.

  WV Campus Compact 

  • Sweat Monkey, although I don't think any have made the switch to it officially yet.We had them at our conference and their presentation was very positively received .  They have also done free webinars with campuses who couldn't make the conference and those have received positive responses as well.Scott Fore and Wesley Barnett at Sweat Monkey have been the people I have worked with.