CAFO Summit 2014 Technology Intensive Goals

Technology Pre-conference Meeting Proposed Agenda

My lovely and sweet wife, Anne, has been in touch with Jedd from CAFO and has learned that they have filled out the “official” pre-conference intensives and aren’t in a position to assist with promotion of our idea for a meeting around technology needs and common understanding of tech terms for global orphan care ministries.  Below is what I submitted to Jedd last summer.  I think for a list of items for consideration this has some merit.  Since I’m not in the direct orphan care path, I wouldn’t pretend to understand all of the realities and what would be most helpful in terms of technology leverage, but I have talked with a lot of orphan care ministries and have heard some of these themes repeatedly.  We hope you can join us for this pre-conference meeting to be held at Willow Creek Church April 30th, the day before the CAFO Summit 2014 officially begins.

Purpose – understand greatest needs and then advance and leverage use of technology for global orphan care ministries

Global Orphan Care Ministries

1. Identify key group of ministries for focus group to determine most effective topics
2. Develop survey to determine greatest opportunities for technology

Definition of success

1. Greatest needs
   1. Increasing support
      1. Donor connections to children
      2. Child profiles and direct communication
   2. Extending input to the field
   3. Leveraging social media

1. Desired outcomes
   1. Common terminology
   2. Integrating various solutions
   3. Best practice library 
2. Grab donor side

1. Build relationship
2. Be mobile—stickiness
3. Let donor know how to choose and how to interact

1. Dashboard

1. See ministry at a glance
2. Money buckets
3. Kid trends
4. Better forecasting