Things We Shipped::October 2017
Transparency is an integral part of New Story. In fact, you can check our financials here. When you give, we promise to send 100% of all donations directly to hire local workers and buy local materials to build life-changing homes for families that are living in survival mode. We also value transparency within our team. Every Monday and Friday we have weekly team calls to set our goals for the week and hold each other accountable. Sharing is a big part of our process which is why we were inspired by our CTO Morgan J. Lopes to begin sharing things that our tech team built or launched every month.
Newstorynight.com
New Story hosted its first ever fundraising gala event in Atlanta, our first event, on October 7th, 2017. We were able to raise $445,000 to build life-changing homes for 74 families in Haiti. It was an incredible experience and “New Story Night” will be coming to more cities in 2018. The tech team helped by launching a website for the event, check it out here: https://www.newstorynight.com/.
Kill The Accounting Doc
Every month we continue to develop the “Monolith” which is the internal tool that we use to manage our donors, families, impact data, and more. Our operations team was using a massive Excel spreadsheet referred to as the “Accounting Doc” to track home construction for ~1000+ families, a big no-no in our books. After listening to the ops team’s pain points, we built a tech solution to store all of the data in the Monolith and finally “Kill the accounting doc”.
Construction Management Tool Web Interface
We are in the process of launching a mobile app for our local partners that will track the home construction process in the field. For example, our local partners will be able to use the app to send real-time updates of our homes, such as a delay in construction or if we need a picture of a family. We built a web interface that allows the ops team to easily communicate and send messages to our local partners through the Monolith.
Survey API
Our next mobile app will be a survey tool that will allow us us to collect all of our impact data surveys in a more efficient way (goodbye pencil and paper!). Step #1 of creating this tool, building an API!
Thank you for building New Story with us!
