FELTON MARCH 2021 NEWSLETTER
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Cross-sector collaboration between nonprofits, corporations, and governments is strategically important in creating a viable social safety network. The convergence of economic and social pressures fosters such collaboration. Felton Institute is appreciative of its partnership with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) in weaving that local safety net. TNDC is a community-based nonprofit committed to serving low-income individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood by providing the most basic foundation for prosperity: a place to call home.
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What is CIRCE Software?
Founded in San Francisco in 2011, Circe Software is a for-profit social enterprise company offering a case management system for nonprofit and community-based organizations (CBOs). Created for Felton Insistute using the Salesforce platform, Circe Software was developed as a complete, easily adaptable, cloud-based platform for managing human services.

Circe Software is not a typical software company. We envision a world where:
1. Organizations providing critical human services spend more time serving their clients.
2. Staff members are happier and more productive because they are empowered to spend their time in ways that best serve their organization’s mission.
3. Transparency, compliance, and accountability are simply, securely, and efficiently managed.
MARCH 2021
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CIRCE Software, Inc: Get to know Felton's Silent Partner
Let's start with the bottom line. The Circe Software platform has empowered Felton Institute to run over fifty direct service programs smoothly and reliably for fifteen years.

Founded in San Francisco in 2011, Circe Software, Inc. is a for-profit social enterprise company offering a case management system for nonprofit and community-based organizations (CBOs). Created for Felton Institute in 2006 using the Salesforce platform, Circe Software was developed as a complete, easily adaptable, cloud-based platform for managing human services with the following objectives in mind:

  • Data organization and streamlined case management, which would reduce paperwork and allow staff to spend more time with clients. 
  • Transparency, HIPPA compliance, and accountability. 
FELTON AND YOU
Felton and the Fight Against Hunger.
Food Insecurity is a term referring to disruption of access to enough quality, nutritious food due to lack of money and other resources. In California, food insecurity has more than doubled for its residents and more than tripled in some Bay Area Counties. Statistics show that applications to CalFresh, the governmental program providing electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods, have surged in the past year.
FELTON IN THE NEWS
Published 03.12.2021 | by Laura Wenus
 Advocates for long-term care residents gathered with placards in front of the San Francisco Department of Health, calling on the resumption of in-person visits at care homes. Felton’s Julie Schnieder, MSW who is a Field Service Coordinator for the San Francisco Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program says the rally was part of a nation-wide campaign called “Isolation Kills. The campaign marked the full year of extreme visitation rights in long-term care facilities. To read more, click here.
To learn more about Felton’s Long-Term Ombudsman Program visit:
LAUGHS FOR LIFE 2021
April: A Month Of Laughs!
Did you know that Laughter can improve your health and mental well-being?

Research has shown that laughing can help boost the immune system, decrease stress and create a sense of well-being. San Francisco Suicide Prevention has used laughter to share messages about a topic that is hard to talk about - Suicide.

To continue this tradition, we at San Francisco Suicide Prevention are declaring April "A month of Laughs" – to educate, inform and engage on prevention and awareness. Stay tuned for a bigger event in September!

Special thanks to our donors, supporters, callers, and volunteers for your generous support of San Francisco Suicide Prevention for over 58 years; we appreciate you all so very much.
For more information about San Francisco Suicide Prevention (SFSP), visit sfsuicide.org
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