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This #GivingTuesday, make 3X the impact!

Today you can build stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger Bay Area! Every dollar you donate before December 31st is double matched by our friends at the Super Bowl 50 Fund and Yahoo Employee Foundation.

Donate now to help us bring One Degree to the entire Bay Area.

With your help, expansion means:

Reaching over 1.3 Million people who can’t meet their basic needs. This massive job needs your help.

Coverage in all 9 counties, immediately creating access for families in communities like San Jose, Richmond, Vallejo, and East Palo Alto.

Make your tax-deductible gift today.

Happy Giving Tuesday!

Rey

Help us move the *whole* Bay Area forward 🚀

When we immigrated to the US from the Philippines, my parents tirelessly worked to make ends meet, utilizing every possible resource in our community (from school to friends and colleagues). They made our family stronger and inspired me to help my community access critical resources. Now at over three years into this work, I'm humbled to work with community members who remind me of my parents, like Sofia, a working mother of two and a full-time student. Since starting to use One Degree, Sofia has been able to access a food stamp program for her family, after-school and tutoring programs for her kids and even a baseball team for her son. A huge difference from the frustrating times when she used to ride the bus to dozens of agencies to get just a bit of information on services. There are thousands of families like Sofia’s in the Bay Area and we want to empower them all, which is why we are excited to announce the One Degree 2016 Expansion Fund!

We want to help mothers and families beyond SF and Oakland, and you can help make it happen.

Donate today to help us build stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger Bay Area!

Our goal is to expand One Degree throughout all 9 counties of the Bay Area by the fall of 2016, immediately creating access for families just like Sofia's in communities like San Jose, Richmond, Vallejo, and East Palo Alto.

We've set an initial goal of $10K to kickstart the Expansion Fund. Your support means reaching more families in more counties, so pitch in today!

With immense gratitude, Rey & The One Degree Team

We made affordable housing search less scary + more spooky news! 👻

As the fall season rolls in, we at One Degree are steadily building capacity within our organization and continuing to reach more and more families throughout the Bay Area.

As you may remember, we launched One Home (our new affordable housing search tool) last month, and we have already seen over 3,200 people make over 14,000 searches! This led to nearly 600 applications downloaded. Additionally, caseworkers from Compass Family Services (our launch partner) have fully adopted One Home and already consider it an indispensable tool.

Julianne, one of our members, searching for affordable housing.

MEET ALEJANDRO, OUR NEW BOARD MEMBER!

We're thrilled to introduce you to Alejandro Ayestaran, who just joined One Degree's Board of Directors. He has a passion for helping organizations grow to fulfill their potential and vision, and he brings an engineering education paired with 8+ years of strategy consulting to help develop the future of One Degree. Our mission resonated with Ale's lifelong passion of eradicating poverty through a refreshing and unique technology solution. Technology leverages data infrastructure, feedback, and acquisition channels that will allow One Degree to be a scalable model for impact. Check out the complete interview with Ale at here.

WELCOME AUDREY, OUR NEW RESOURCE MANAGER!

Audrey Galo, One Degree’s new Resource Manager, joined us to empower families and individuals to create sustained positive change in their lives and communities. She is responsible for enhancing and expanding One Degree’s community resource information with a focus on building partnerships and strengthening community participation. She is excited to lead our Bay Area expansion efforts.

BAY AREA EXPANSION -- WE NEED YOU!

Tell us if you want One Degree to expand to your community in the Bay Area (we’re currently in SF and Alameda counties). We’re looking for nonprofit & social service organizations to serve as community partners in each Bay Area county. We're also looking for local funders who are interested in supporting the expansion in all Bay Area counties.

Stay tuned for more exciting news next month, and thanks for being a supporter!

For our community,

Rey

Welcome Alejandro Ayestaran, One Degree’s New Board Member!

Alejandro Ayestaran, Board member

Alejandro has a passion for helping organizations scale and grow to fulfill their potential and vision. An engineer by training and general management executive by trade, for the past 10+ years he has held a number of operational, management and strategic roles at various technology and consumer-focused organizations.

Originally from Argentina, he moved to the Bay Area to pursue an MBA at Stanford University. He is currently the Head of Growth and Operations at Shift Technologies and was previously a Project Leader with the Boston Consulting Group.

The reasons that drove Ale to join One Degree:

“It was a great fit.” One Degree’s mission combined two lifelong passions of his: eradicating poverty and technology. Since moving to the United States, Ale has spent a lot of time getting to know different organizations with missions similar to One Degree’s. He described One Degree as “a refreshing and unique solution”.

His vision for One Degree’s future:

Ale believes One Degree will continue to create an innovative and much-needed solution to fight the poverty facing our communities. Over the next two years, he wants One Degree to solidify its game plan and be in a position to scale to the rest of the nation, and possibly even internationally.

On why poverty is such an important issue for him:

“Poverty is something that has to do with fairness.” Ale recalled being a child in Patagonia, Argentina and being confused by a line of kids that would always arrive early to school. Some were his friends, which he thought surely could not be that excited about school. As he grew, he learned that those kids, including his friends, relied on the school for their meals. In many cases, the school provided their only nutrition for the day. They were just kids - they were his friends.

Welcome Audrey, our new Resource Manager!

We finally have each of our departments covered -- the resource management department is the last gap we’re filling to create a more solid organization. It’s like Captain Planet finally united with the last Planeteer. Audrey Galo, One Degree’s new Resource Manager, joined One Degree to empower families and individuals to create sustained positive change in their lives and communities. She is responsible for enhancing and expanding One Degree’s community resource information with a focus on building partnerships and strengthening community dialogue and participation. Previously, Audrey was the Global Program Design Manager at nonprofit Architecture for Humanity, where she designed and managed architecture and construction projects in post-disaster communities around the world. Audrey received a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design from the California College of the Arts.

Her upcoming challenge is leading our Bay Area expansion efforts! Please give Audrey a warm welcome!

Our Year in Review - FY14-15 Annual Impact Report

We’re excited to share our Annual Impact Report (for our year from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015), which details our impact on the community, the team behind the work, as well as our finances for the year.

Check out some highlights in our Annual Impact Report:

What a year it’s been! From helping nearly 40,000 people access poverty-fighting resources in their communities to growing our team to 7 full-time employees, this year has shown that we are onto something big.

Thank you for your support last year and your continued support this year. We truly can’t do this work without you.

For our community, Rey & the One Degree Team

One Degree Launches Affordable Housing Web Platform, One Home

One Degree and Compass Family Services Partner to Launch Affordable Housing Web Platform, One Home

San Francisco, CA (September 9, 2015) – Affordable housing in the Bay Area is more accessible thanks to a partnership announced today between One Degree and Compass Family Services. One Degree is a nonprofit technology organization that creates modern tech-driven solutions to empower people to create a path out of poverty for themselves and for their communities.

One Home (www.onehomebayarea.org) is the first Bay Area-wide searchable, always up-to-date, and accessible affordable housing website. By using One Home on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, families can find homes they are eligible for, share housing information with others, and download applications.

“We’re bringing the affordable housing space into the 21st century. Thousands of families are already accessing social services by using One Degree on their phones and computers, and now we’re doing the same thing for affordable housing,” said Rey Faustino, CEO and Founder of One Degree. “We’ve made it simple for families to find affordable housing around the Bay Area. Obtaining housing is the first step on the path to overcome poverty.”

Low-income families on average apply to 40 affordable housing properties at a time, according to data from Compass Family Services. This requires them to travel to far-flung offices to pick up paper applications, fill out dozens of documents, and navigate complicated eligibility requirements.

Staff at Compass Family Services, One Home’s launch partner, use the site in their work to help hundreds of clients find and apply to low-income housing throughout the Bay Area.

“We’re very excited about One Home. We’re literally going from piecemealing static housing lists every month to a search engine with an interactive map showing up-to-date availability of affordable housing in the area”, said Erica Kisch, Executive Director of Compass Family Services. “Families, their case managers and agencies who specialize in locating and securing affordable housing for their clients can actually see what’s currently out there and fill out housing applications directly from One Home,” she said.

“We’re thrilled that Compass Family Services is joining us as our launch partner for One Home. We’re looking forward to developing partnerships with other organizations and housing developers to make the affordable housing process better for everyone involved, and so ultimately families have a safe place to live, no matter what their circumstances,” said Faustino.

One Degree plans to open up other partnership opportunities for housing organizations in order to ensure more low-income families throughout the Bay Area obtain safe and stable homes.

One Home is One Degree’s second product. Its sister website, www.1deg.org, offers comprehensive listings of thousands of nonprofit and social services in Alameda and San Francisco counties for health care, legal services, food, employment services, educational programs, and many more.

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About One Degree:

One Degree is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, whose mission is to empower people to create a path out of poverty for themselves and for their communities. We are focused on creating modern tech-driven solutions to problems that plague the safety net of community resources that help families in need. We make thousands of local, poverty-fighting nonprofits and social services accessible to families through www.1deg.org. As part of our mission, we are also working to ensure every family has a safe and stable home by making it easier to find affordable housing through our new website, OneHomeBayArea.org.

You can learn more about One Degree at www.1deg.org.

CONTACT: Rey Faustino, CEO & Founder, One Degree, 888-799-7273, [email protected]

#onehome #press release #onehomebayarea #onedegree

Introducing One Home

It comes as no surprise to anyone that finding affordable housing in the Bay Area is really, really hard. Even middle income-earners are discovering that their options are limited and the process time-consuming and complex. For the most vulnerable individuals and under-resourced families among us, it’s even more difficult and demoralizing.

We spend a lot of time at One Degree working to connect families with a variety of resources, but, without a doubt, helping secure a safe and stable home is the most fundamental and profound thing we can do to help our members in the long term. It’s core to our mission of helping families overcome poverty, but until recently we didn’t know where to start.

Since we launched One Degree last year, we’ve been told by our members and partner agencies that they wanted to see us provide more housing resources. In particular, we were told that the definitive source of up-to-date housing information are the PDF lists compiled by Compass Family Services, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works with homeless families.

According to Compass, low-income families on average apply to 40 affordable housing properties at a time, and the process often requires them to travel to far-flung offices to pick up paper applications, fill out dozens of documents, and navigate complicated eligibility requirements.

In 2015, this kind of overwrought, byzantine process puts low-income families at a distinct disadvantage and is symbolic of the “cycle of poverty.” Those who are struggling often don’t even know where to look for something affordable, and without stable housing, can’t improve their economic situation.

This is exactly the kind of self-perpetuating inequity that is the focus of our organization. We knew we had to do something.

That’s why One Degree partnered with Compass Family Services to launch a brand new website: One Home.

It’s modern, friendly, and, most importantly, makes it easy to find and apply for housing. It’s also dead-simple to share and keep track of the dozens of applications families have to complete. It’s free, and available to anyone on a computer or smartphone, in English and Spanish.

This is our first product partnership with another organization, and we couldn’t be more excited to be working with such dedicated and expert professionals. The team at Compass has been working for over 100 years to help clients on a 1-on-1 basis, and they do incredible work getting homeless families back on track.

While One Degree is a start-up, we bring to the table our own expertise in technology and product development and, of course, a shared commitment to helping at-risk and low-income families. With our combined knowledge and talents, we hope to scale the work that both our organizations do to reach many thousands more in the region who need to find a home.

Check out OneHomeBayArea.org and let us know what you think. We would love your feedback directly; email me at eric [at] 1deg.org.

We know that a sleek new website isn’t going to solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area. But making it easier to find a place to call home is a good start.

You’re invited to an exclusive launch event! 🏠

We can't believe the summer is nearly over. Natalia, our new head of community growth and marketing, along with our summer interns and staff, have conducted 15 community outreach events from the Bayview District in SF to Fruitvale in Oakland. We've met with hundreds of moms, dads, and kids who are excited about making the most of the new school year, so we created these lists to help them find back-to-school resources: after-school programs and tutoring, college prep programs, early education options & school supplies and clothing.

THANKS TO TIPPING POINT & SUPERBOWL 50

We're thrilled to announce that Tipping Point has graciously renewed their funding for One Degree. Not only does Tipping Point provide the fuel to keep our work going, they also have been providing valuable guidance throughout the year. We can't thank them enough!

We also want to thank our newest supporter, the Superbowl 50 Fund. You've probably heard that next year's Superbowl will be in the Bay Area, and it's gearing up to be the most philanthropic Superbowl ever. In addition to giving us a grant, they also created a video showcasing our very own Orlando Pineda Garcia, One Degree's hardworking engineer. Check out the video!

JOIN US AT A SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT WITH COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES

We've partnered with Compass Family Services, one of the Bay Area's leading organizations helping homeless families, to release a special new product. We’re keeping the details quiet until the launch event on September 8 at 6 pm at Zendesk HQ in San Francisco. Join us to learn about our new product, One Home!

Click here for event details & to register

OFFICE MOVE

Last but not least, we're moving offices! For nearly two years, we have been generously given office space by San Francisco-based Say Media and their wonderful staff. Since we've been growing our team, we outgrew Say Media’s space (a good problem to have!). So we bid a fond farewell and THANK YOU to our friends at Say Media.

Our new office is 2973 16th Street, San Francisco, right in the heart of the Mission District (and next to 16th Street BART Station). Our mailing address remains the same: 2370 Market Street, Suite 162, San Francisco 94114.

A HUGE special thank you to Twitter (and the NeighborNest), Mozilla, and Pinterest who helped us this summer with temporary office space.

Come and pay us a visit at our new home in the Mission District! A big thank you for your support, and as always, feel free to drop me a note if you have any ideas or questions! For our community, Rey & the One Degree Team

Check out what we’re up to this summer 🌞

Our office has been abuzz with excitement over the last few weeks because we’ve welcomed two new staff members, and have been joined by three summer interns! Please give a warm welcome to our new One Degree teammates and get to know them below! But before we introduce them, we need your help again…

HELP US HIRE A RESOURCE MANAGER

We have one more full-time position to fill: Resource Manager (formerly titled "Content Manager"). We're looking for someone who is passionate about nonprofit and social services AND has impeccable attention to detail. The resource manager will oversee the collection and maintenance of the nonprofit and social service information on One Degree. This person will also lead our expansion efforts to several additional counties this year and help thousands of low-income families find the resources they need to overcome poverty. Please help us spread the word about our open position!

Click here to check out the job description

WELCOME OUR NEW TEAMMATES!

Natalia Carrasco, Head of Community Growth & Marketing

Natalia will lead our community growth and marketing efforts so we can bring One Degree to as many people as possible. As the daughter of a social worker, Natalia has always been involved in helping the community in one way or another: from teaching investment banking to small-business owners in Bolivia, to hosting events in the Bay area focused on using technology for social good. Prior to joining One Degree, Natalia was an entrepreneur and an investment banker. She received a B.S. in Finance from Universidad Privada Boliviana and earned an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, where she attended as a William E. Simon Fellow.

Herbert Castillo, Operations & Development Associate

With a passion for entrepreneurship and social good, Herbert joins the team to support fundraising and to keep operations running smoothly. Born in El Salvador and raised in Redwood City, California, he grew up seeking to create social change for the communities around him. Herbert brings his diverse experiences in the financial sector, tech startups, and local county government to his critical operational role at One Degree. Herbert is a recent graduate of Babson College with a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus on entrepreneurship.

SUMMER INTERNS

Along with our two full-time hires, we're excited to be joined by three talented summer interns: Jamie Ayón-Facundo from Princeton University, Andrea Kopczynski from Rice University, and Dennyce Martinez from St. Olaf College. Read more about them on our blog.

NAVIGATE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WORKSHOP AT TWITTER NEIGHBORNEST

Last month we held our first Navigate Your Neighborhood workshop, hosted at Twitter's new NeighborNest in the Tenderloin District of SF. The event was a great opportunity to meet our members and help them find resources right in their community. Be on the lookout for future One Degree events across the Bay Area and check out our blog for more info on the workshop.

Stay tuned for more exciting news later this summer. We're going to unveil something new, announce some of our amazing investors, and release our Annual Impact Report where we’ll detail how we’ve made a difference with your help over the last year.

Thanks for your support!

Rey & the One Degree Team

Meet the 2015 One Degree Summer Interns!

(Left to Right) Andrea Kopczynski, Dennyce Martinez, Jamie Ayon-Facundo

With One Degree’s expansion across the Bay Area comes the expansion of our internship program! This summer our full-time staff will be joined by three amazing summer interns whose roles will include engaging with the Bay Area through community events, further developing our social media presence, and updating the extensive amount of resource information available on our web platform. Dennyce and Jamie are joining us through the Eastside College Prep Alumni Internship Program and Andrea is joining us from an internship program through Rice University.

Read more about them below!

Andrea Kopczynski

Andrea is originally from St. Louis, but is currently an undergraduate student at Rice University in Houston, TX. She is a rising senior and will be graduating next year with a B.A. in Sociology. While at Rice, Andrea has spent time developing community engagement programs which educate Rice students on social issues both locally and nationally. She is also a Rice Health Advisor, a program that provides peer support in issues such as mental health, sexual health, and overall well-being. Additionally she works at the student run coffeehouse on Rice’s campus. She's passionate about promoting social justice and sustainable community development.

Dennyce Martinez

Dennyce went to school at St. Olaf College in Minnesota for two years and then decided to transfer to a college closer to home in the Bay Area. She is double majoring in Political Science and Sociology and hopes to pursue a career working for the federal government. She’s excited to work for One Degree this summer and contribute to a wonderful organization dedicated to helping low-income families in the Bay Area. She is looking forward to gaining knowledge and being enlightened on how non-profit organizations operate. Moreover, she’s looking forward to helping a genuine organization strive towards achieving their goal.

Jamie Ayon-Facundo

Jamie is a first-generation college student who had the privilege of attending Eastside College Preparatory High School which ensured he took all of the necessary courses to attend college. He is currently pursuing a degree at Princeton University where he is majoring in sociology and hopes to find a means through which he can help other first-generation, low-income students access higher education. He is thrilled to be working at One Degree and looks forward to gaining work experience by working with an issue that he is passionate about.

We are very excited to have them join the One Degree team this summer!

Navigating Our Neighborhood with the Help of Twitter NeighborNest

Two weeks ago we held an exciting workshop called Navigate Your Neighborhood where both community members and non-profit practitioners were trained on using the One Degree platform to access community resources. Twitter kindly hosted us in their NeighborNest, a newly opened space where they provide technology training for the community (particularly for those in the Tenderloin where Twitter HQ is). The NeighborNest allowed everyone to have access to their own computer and spend the full time of the workshop learning about how to access resources.

Questions were asked, resources were found, and everyone was having a great time learning more about finding opportunities in their neighborhood. After basic instructions, members were quickly navigating through the various resources. We received lots of positive feedback from all who attended, many commenting on the ease of using One Degree.

“One Degree seems like the preeminent site for help and connecting people in need.” ~One Degree Member

We had 90% of people say that they would be interested in attending a similar workshop in the future, and over 93% say that after going through the workshop, they are highly likely to recommend One Degree to a friend or a colleague. Overall, attendees scored the workshop an average 9.1 out of 10, a number that we would call a success. Although the real success of the workshop was being able to meet more of our members in person, and learning to navigate our neighborhoods as one community.

Be on the lookout for future One Degree events across the Bay Area!

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(Left to right) Rey Faustino, Leah Laxamana (Twitter NeighborNest Director), Eric Johnson, Eric Lukoff

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Community-centered Design

Hi everyone. My name’s Eric Johnson, and I’m the new User Experience Designer at One Degree. My job is to research our community members’ needs and design our site so it’s solving their problems in an intuitive way. I started just over 2 months ago and I’m excited to share with you what I’ve been working on.

My first project upon joining was to get to know our community and find out how people are using One Degree. To inform my process, I used the very helpful User Research Guide by Michael Margolis of Google Ventures and The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design from IDEO. The main takeaway: You can’t make ANY assumptions about your users or how they might use your product.

Michael Margolis’ “User Research Guide” and IDEO’s “Field Guide to Human-Centered Design”

With this in mind, I drafted a plan: Meet One Degree members and prospective members out in the field, learn about their background, how they access community resources and use technology now, and observe them as they complete a few key tasks on our site.

I set out to find a diverse group of people with a broad range of perspectives. I talked to people sitting in the food court of a mall, relaxing in a park, at a transitional housing shelter, and over a hot cup of coffee at a local cafe. I was surprised and grateful for how willing people were to talk and help out.

After hearing each person’s story, I asked them to complete different tasks on One Degree. I’d say “If you were looking for affordable housing, how would you use this website to do that?” and sit back and passively observe. I asked them to think out loud as they navigated the site and watched for ‘pain-points’. Pain-points are moments when you might get lost, confused, frustrated, or is unable to complete a given task.

With the help of our members we were able to identify over 20 pain-points in our product and set out to fix them immediately. I drafted new designs for each part of the product we identified as needing improvement, presented them to our team, and in a couple of weeks our engineers had already released a new version of the site. It showed how much empathy they have for our community and how they obviously believe in the power of user-centered design.

One Degree CTO Eric Lukoff and engineer Orlando Pineda hard at work implementing the changes

Most of the improvements you may not even notice (good design is 99% invisible, you know), but one example of a change we made was on our opportunity page. When participants found the resource they wanted to use, some were still not sure what to do next, despite our signature “What to do next” box. It turns out that box was getting lost amid the contact information and location of the service provider. In our new design, we’ve highlighted and called out this section so it’s crystal clear what you need to do to access the opportunity.

New design of our opportunity page with highlighted “What to do next” section

After fixing the pain-points we uncovered, I began more exploratory conversations with community members and nonprofit professionals. We identified several ways our tools can better enable families to find what they need, and help professionals do their jobs better. I’m thrilled to say we’ve begun working on a whole new version of our site with a modern interface to the navigate the complex world of case management, community resources, and client referrals. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!

In the meantime, check out the new and improved version of One Degree with the 20+ updates we recently made.

Hot off the Press! + We're hiring!

A few months ago the San Francisco Chronicle nominated me for their first-everVisionary of the Year Award, alongside some amazing business and community leaders in the Bay.

Today I’m humbled again as a full profile of the work we’re doing at One Degree and how it all started was published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on SFGate.com.

Although the article emphasizes how One Degree can help recent immigrants, as you know our website is for anyone who needs help -- from a low-income single mother (of any national origin!) to a social worker working on behalf of his clients, and everyone in-between.

Check out the article (and video!) here, and share it with your friends.

WE'RE HIRING!

I’m also excited to let you know that One Degree is hiring again! We have two new positions open:

Community Growth & Marketing Manager

Content Manager

We were able to bring on our previous teammates because of you. Could you help again by telling your friends and colleagues about our open positions?

Click here to check out the job descriptions

NEW PRO TOOLS

Last week Eric wrote a blog post about our newest tools for nonprofit and social work professionals. Now you can manage your organization’s profile, share lists with your coworkers, and add private or public notes to opportunities!

Check out the blog post, and get started with our new pro tools today!

Our work is far from over, and we really appreciate having your support throughout this journey. Thank you!

Onward,

Rey & the One Degree Team

Rey Faustino

CEO + Founder of One Degree

#onedegree #one degree #sfchronicle #san francisco chronicle

More tools for pros - beyond the binder

Ah, the paper resource binder! So familiar. So simple. It’s easy to use and you can pass it around your office. Who needs computers when you’ve got your trusty resource binder?

But then again, it’s heavy. New staff have a hard time understanding the the way it’s “organized.” Oh and there’s only that one copy. Those little sticky notes or handwritten scrawls are helpful, but so easily lost or smudged. And since it’s, well, a paper binder, there’s no way to look up information out of the office, on your phone, or on your computer. There’s also no easy way to share information stored on those faded, ripped, Xeroxed pages. And of course the whole thing is almost always years out of date, because it’s just...paper!

It’s 2015. We can do better. And I don’t have to tell you that we need to do better for the families we’re serving.

Today we’re introducing some new ways for you to use One Degree as a “binder replacement” for your organization.

1. Manage your organization’s profile Visit your organization page and connect your individual One Degree account with your organization’s profile. (Be sure to log in and check “Show me tools for nonprofit or social work professionals” in your account settings.) Once you’re connected, you can manage your organization’s information, create shared resources, and invite your coworkers to join you.

2. Share lists with coworkers You’ve already been able to create a list of community resources and share it with those you decide. But now you can also share your lists with everyone at your organization (after you connect your account with it), so your coworkers can use the the same shared resource lists. And if you and your colleagues have lists you want to share with the wider world, you can display those lists right on your organization’s profile page.

Check out the Suitcase Clinic’s page for an example of how they are using One Degree lists to organize their most-used resources and share them with the community.

3. Add notes to opportunities Just like a regular binder, sometimes it’s helpful to add a little note or scribble to your list -- tips, tricks, or other useful information about how to access resources. And now you can do just that on One Degree pages. Make these notes private, so only you can see them, or share them with your coworkers. You can also make notes public so the community can learn from your experience.

So get started! Once you’ve connected your One Degree account with your organization, you can invite coworkers to join you in managing your lists, notes, and community resource information. We can’t wait to see what you share.

As always, email me eric [at] 1deg.org if you have any feedback, questions, or suggestions! More to come...

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Meet One Degree's newest team members: Orlando, engineer, and Eric, user experience designer

We're beyond thrilled to introduce you to the two new members of our team: Orlando Pineda, engineer, and Eric Johnson, user experience designer!

Orlando and Eric Johnson round out our product development team, and will join Eric Lukoff in building out website and future offerings. With their support, we'll have the capacity to more quickly improve our existing products, build exciting new features, and take our organization to the next level in achieving our mission of truly empowering families to access poverty-fighting resources.

Orlando Pineda is a Bay Area native from East Palo Alto, CA. A graduate of Columbia University's computer science department, he previously worked at education tech startup Root-1 and held other engineering internships. He's excited to use his coding skills to help people in need fight poverty.

Eric Johnson, born in Oakland, CA, and raised in Portland, OR, is eager to use his creativity and design skills to create a more cohesive experience for One Degree's users. Eric got bitten by the startup bug after he graduated from Santa Clara University. Most recently he was the lead designer at Fidelis, an edtech startup.

We're fired up about having them both on the team because they're hard workers, fast learners, and generally fun guys!

Welcome Orlando and Eric to the team by writing a note here:

bit.ly/welcome-orlando-eric

As you can see, we're making deliberate steps to grow our team so that we can provide a better product and experience for our members and our community. Thanks for joining us and helping spread the word about our hires!

Onward,

Rey & the (growing) One Degree team

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