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Avoid the scramble for donor, grant and performance reporting

How many all-nighters and hair-pulling have you had to ensure your transportation program data is captured, analyzed, and reported on in a meaningful way? Too many. Our team has talked to hundreds of transportation coordinators, managers, and executives involved in elderly, special needs, and disabled transportation and we’ve seen three common challenges teams face: -easily…
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Manage the Budget, Don’t Break the Bank…

“For All Mankind” is a 2020-2023 Apple TV series that depicts an alternate history of the Space Race of the 1960s. In this storyline amongst other interesting twists, NASA is a fully self-funded organization that becomes independent of the US government budgetary process. Through patent royalty of its technology and products it generates sufficient revenue…
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Don’t wait too long for you drivers to update their insurance cards

In 2018, 6% of all car insurance policyholders had a claim in the US. This was a total of 6.7, million claims with 1.9M being bodily injury claims and 4.8M being property damage claims. These facts can be a liability nightmare for organizations providing transportation for the special needs, disabled and elderly community. But it…
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Don’t let gas prices kick your a**

Americans under 40 are witnessing the highest inflation of their lifetimes. Not since the early 1980s have fuel prices risen as fast as they have over the last 12 months. This not only affects in-house owned vehicle fuel costs but also any drivers that you use for transportation services. Doing more with less is not…
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Attracting and retaining volunteer drivers

Scrooge might not have been the most ideal volunteer of his time.  He was frugal, cheap, and impatient. But like Scrooge, today’s modern volunteers are also struggling with the demands of their time and their wallets. With gas prices high and extra time a luxury, can you get the most from your volunteers while respecting…
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Medication or Groceries? Starvation in America

According to mealsonwheelsamerica.org, nearly 7.4 million seniors live below the poverty line. This leaves less than $240 to live on per week to pay for rising expenses in housing, utilities, and medical expenses. Imagine having to choose between groceries and your medication. This is the reality for our seniors today. Meals on Wheels programs help…
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Tactics on Fundraising and Volunteer Recruiting

SPEDSTA Special Video Series on alternative ideas for fundraising and volunteer recruiting: http://www.spedsta.com/lp-senior-transportation-funding-and-driver-recruiting_2.html Contact us for a special eBook series where we go into specific day-to-day tactics on driver recruiting and fundraising in the digital world. If you like this post, then please check out our other thoughts at www.spedsta.com/blog or email us at info@spedsta.com.

Spedsta Launches FundMyParents: CrowdFunding for the Family of Elderly Parents

Sally grew up in a small suburban area. She met a wonderful guy and they decided to move to a bigger city with more opportunity. They both got their dream jobs, bought a nice brownstone apartment and set about having a family. What happens next is what is happening to millions of Americans today. Their…
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Granny Tech: How to teach your 65 year old mother to use the iPad

In Bangladesh of the 1980s, people were dirt poor.  Around that time, Muhammad Yunus created the Grameen Bank and took it upon himself through micro loans to empower the poor out of poverty in Bangladesh over the next 30 years.  What was surprising about his success story was that the problem he truly solved was…
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How to Get a 20 Year Sabbatical Before Retiring

The financial crash of 2008 was the best thing that happened to thinking around retirement. Although it virtually halved almost everyone’s personal retirement savings at the time it also shone a very clear spotlight on people’s fragile concept of retirement and security. No longer was it a given that you save while you work in…
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