Information Technology

The CMC IT team is proud to announce the launch of GRCF's GrantOff! The Community Foundation came to us with the idea of creating a section of the site to allow people to vote between two nonprofits with the winner getting a free $1,000 grant. Together we took the initial idea of "crowd sourced philanthropy" and worked it to include quick videos of the nonprofits; tie-ins with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; and a vote bar so you can see how each non-profit is doing.

Clicking on the simple Vote button counts as a single vote, but since...

The CMC is proud to join the Grand Rapids Historical Commission in announcing their latest book Glance at the Past: An Album of Grand Rapids History.  You may be asking yourself why the IT team is announcing a book, but this is no normal book. Different pages within the book contain QR codes, which direct you to a mobile site built by the IT team. From there you can read more about the topic, view additional historical images, even listen to podcasts which were recorded through WYCE.

Head over to the Historical Commission's

The CMC IT department is happy to announce that we are working with Jubilee Jobs to help them with some much needed upgrades to their technology.  A new server running Windows Small Business Server 2011 is being purchased that will provide file, print, email and remote access services for Jubilee Jobs and their staff.  The new server also provides increased storage space with redundant, hot swappable hard drives in a RAID configuration, allowing for easy replacement and increased uptime in the event of a hard drive failure.  

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The CMC IT department is proud to announce the launch of the Grandwich competition website, sponsored  by the Downtown Alliance.

The Grandwich competition is a battle between area restaurants, delis, cafes, bakeries, etc. to create a sandwich that wins exclusive rights to being the official sandwich of Grand Rapids, or "Grandwich".  This sandwich will be synonymous with Grand Rapids, putting GR on the culinary map with the cheesesteaks and Chicago dogs.

The Grandwich site allows a user to register or use facebook connect to...

The CMC IT team is proud to announce the launch of the mobile site for the Grand Rapids Community Foundation. This addition to their current site gives quick access to contact information, grants and scholarships, and My Community Matters, President Diana Sieger's blog. The site also uses a responsive design to optimize it's display across the wide array of mobile devices including tablets.

Visit www.GRFoundation.org on your mobile device to check it out, or use your barcode scanner on the qr code to the right to be directed...