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about Quicksilver's clients
Who we serve
Some of Quicksilver’s past and present clients include:
- AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, UCSF
- Bananas, Inc.
- The California Endowment
- California Native Plant Society
- The Charles Schwab Foundation
- Community Violence Solutions
- CompuMentor
- Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
- Corporation for Supportive Housing
- Family and Children Law Center
- Girls’ Justice Initiative
- Housing Authority of the County of Marin
- The James Irvine Foundation
- The Marin Community Foundation
- Marin Continuum of Housing and Services
- MDRC
- NeuroAIDS Consortium, UCSF
- Novato Human Needs Center
- The Paramount Theater
- Philliber Research Associates
- San Francisco Department of Human Services
- The Sierra Club (San Francisco Bay Chapter)
Types of organizations
Although Quicksilver serves a very diverse range of nonprofit and public sector clients, a large part of our work is done with:
- Providers of direct human services (homelessness and housing, legal aid, violence prevention, violence prevention, childcare referrals)
- Evaluators
- Scientific and medical researchers
- Private foundations
- National and local advocacy organizations
- Environmental groups
Types of databases
Our clients use our databases for many different purposes:
- Client and service tracking
- Client and service tracking for homeless individuals (HMIS)
- Contact management
- Fundraising
- Scientific research
- Biospecimen banking
- Eligibility assessment
- Grant management
- Project management and evaluation
- Employee and benefit tracking
Quicksilver’s products range from single-station standalone Microsoft Access databases to web-enabled systems (usually developed in PHP and mySQL) to nationally-distributed client-server solutions using Microsoft SQL Server.
Other services
Although most of our work is database-related, our clients also retain our consulting services in a number of other areas related to nonprofit use of technology, including project management, community use of technology, and web development.
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