Corporate Profile
Children's Scholarship Fund of Kansas City
Corporate Profile: CSF of KC is the Kansas City branch of the national Children's Scholarship Fund based in New York, New York. This organization focuses on providing 4-year scholarships to needy families who would like to send their children to private schools. The scholarship recipients are chosen on a lottery basis and are avaiable in denominations of either 25%, 50%, or 75% of the actual tuition.

Public Web Site
The web site available to the public consists of general information for perspective recipients as well as donors. This provides statistics that are pulled directly from the database and updated on a regular basis providing those interested with an accurate view of the program.

This web site also features a Flash presentation developed by The Art Mill as an "online commercial" informing potential donors about the heartbeart of the organization.

Another still shot from the Flash presentation

Private Web Site
There were two "private" sites built for CSF-KC. The first one (pictured below) was for the administration team to gather statistics and reports about current scholarship information (note: the image below has been purposefully "smudged" to avoid revealing sensitive information). The second site allowed the administrators at individual schools to log in and view the status of their scholarship students, along with the status of their applications and paperwork. This allowed them to know when payments would be arriving, how much each payment would be, as well as what might be a delay in the payment due to missing paperwork.

In every scenario listed here, publishing the data to the web allowed the staff managing the database to focus on their responsibilities rather than repeatedly having to step back and generate reports for administrators or school officials. This automation made the database administators more prodcutive, as well as giving more power to those in the field allowing them to be more efficient and effective.