Other highlights
- Database management
- Created and managed a comprehensive data collection system that tracked nearly 3,300 customers over 10 sites using web-based forms and MS Excel
- Marketing
- Developed highly-praised marketing collateral
- Launched a new Digital Literacy website whose purpose is to recruit new volunteers and support current volunteers in the field
- Fund Development
- Awarded $110K from Spectrum/Charter Communications for 5 Digital Literacy sites and a new computer-equipped Learning Center
- Gained the equivalent of $142,892 in volunteer donated time (up from $67,703 in 2015-16)
- Produced program results that lead to a 50% increase in the RCSD/OACES contract
- Received 10 laptop computers, donated by a LVR Board member
- Raised over $2.5K from Digital Literacy volunteers who formed a 2017 Gold-sponsor Brain Game team
- Awarded $5K from Episcopal Diocese of Rochester for 20 computer tablets
- Customers
- Distributed 772 free flash drives to customers (up from 215 in FY 2015-16)
- Provided, for the first time, 3 laptop computers to long-term customers who demonstrated the capacity to grow their digital skills
- Customers came from a total of 42 zip codes: 83.9% of them lived in 14619, 14621, 14609, 14611 and 14606
- Volunteers
- Supported volunteers up to 147 hours per week, 6 days per week
- Provided 5,014 hours of service (up from an estimated 1,756 in 2014-15)
- Provided on-call support to volunteers 6 days per week, including until 8:30 pm on three evenings and 4 hours on Saturdays
- Continually made technological improvements to better support volunteers
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