KLM Scholarship foundation

The KLM Scholarship Foundation (KLM), an exciting new community partner for Impact Makers, raises funds and distributes book scholarship awards. These scholarships are academic-based and target Virginia college students faced with financial obstacles.

Impact Makers established a scholarship in partnership with KLM to award aid for tuition, mentorship, and internships. Three female students pursuing STEM degrees were granted over $12,000 each and provided mentorship by Impact Makers’ employees.

Samartian house

Another new pro bono partner, Samaritan House, fosters personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking, and homelessness. Impact Makers has helped Samaritan Houses automate several administrative processes enabling their advocates can focus on supporting their clients.

IT4Causes

IT4Causes is a nonprofit that provides stable, secure, and sustainable information technology solutions to enable other non profit organizations to focus on their missions and better serve their clients. In 2022, Impact Makers assisted IT4Causes in supporting these organizations by providing intern mentorship and cyber security-related projects (including tabletop exercises) performed by our security experts.

Virginia Free and Charitable clinics

Automate Quarterly Reporting – The state of Virginia provides funds to the clinics to care for low-income, or uninsured adult Virginia residents in two major areas:

Health Care Services – which covers mental health, dental and/or medical care
Medications & Pharmacy Services – which covers prescriptions
The Director of Membership Services is the person that gets the information from the state and produces the two reports for each clinic on a quarterly basis. As well as a summary report for the state.

This means producing approximately 100 reports, in a short timeframe, which in the old way involved several Excel macros which at best were finicky, and sending approximately 50 emails to the various clinics. In this process, there was a lot of copying and pasting, and the chance of human error was high.

Impact Makers revamped the process using Microsoft Power Automate, which took the state-provided data(Excel), the required state reporting format (Excel), and a listing of Clinic Executive Directors (Excel). The processing reads the clinic data, state data, and produces the correct report(s) for each clinic, and emails them along with a letter via (Outlook).

At the end of the process, a summary report is compiled for reporting to the state of Virginia.