Tapestry

Integrating Social Services, Building Communities


Welcome!

We are pleased that you could join us online and hope we can be of support in your area of need or able to take advantage of your area of expertise by offering various ways you can support your community such as volunteering or donating goods and services.

As a visitor you do not need to register or login in order to find & view general information on this site. If you do wish to register feel free to click on the Login tab and enter information in the Register Me form.

If you are an agency staff member or another management user from a local organization you will need to have registered and had your account activated in order to manage your organizations data.

If you wish to speak to someone about acquiring specific assistance please use the Service Keyword Search feature on the front page to get a listing of related services and view details about contacting one of the Agency representatives in your area of need.

General use and basic information about navigating this site and what it has to offer are listed below. There may be additional site use policies that apply and that you will want to review, those can be found in the User Agreement when you register.


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Searching for Services

Searching for a service is very simple:

  1. Using the Keyword field (Service Finder) on the very front page where you login/logout, enter a word to search by and then click on the gray search button
  2. you will arrive on a search results table where you click on a link to view further details about the Agency, Program, or Service of your choice
  3. the details will contain information on how to contact the service and what they have to offer

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Using the Directory of Services Categories

The Directory of Services, also known as the Taxonomy, contains categories ordered in a hierarchial view with up to five levels per category. Each category can have Services posted to it. These Service Profiles will be listed in a table where you can also view the sponsoring Agency or Program details by clicking on available links.


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I Need Help

This area is designed to host links to other web sites, documents, and/or tools that can help visitors get assistance in the local area or community.

Additional information about this page will be located at the top of the page and links will be listed below that header. For comments or questions about this page contact the Sites Administrator.


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How Can I Help

This area is designed to host links to other web sites, documents, and/or tools where the visitor can provide assistance and support to various causes in the local area or community.

Additional information about this page will be located at the top of the page and links will be listed below that header. For comments or questions about this page contact the Sites Administrator.


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About Us

This area is designed to host links to local web sites, documents and articles about current local news and information as well as FAQ about this site.

Additional information about this page will be located at the top of the page and links will be listed below that header. For comments or questions about this page contact the Sites Administrator.


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Your Dollars at work & Success Stories

This area is designed to host links to articles about local community success stories and information about how your support of this site and local efforts is paying off.

Additional information about this page will be located at the top of the page and links will be listed below that header. For comments or questions about this page contact the Sites Administrator.


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The Community Calendar

This calendaring system may or may not be available to non-registered users. If you are unable to access this area please contact the sites administrator for details.

This calendar is designed to host a variety of events local to your community, efforst, or other causes, some events may be fairly general and be viewable without logging in to the site. However, some may only be viewed by personnel of agencies or folks belonging to certain Security Groups set up by the Sites Administrator.

If you are a registered user and have adequate permissions you may be able to post your personal events here as well as your agency events. The Calendar Export feature will allow you to download any events that you can view and import them into a palm pilot tool.


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Agency & Staff Tools

This page is designed to host links that will take a registered management user from an agency or local organization to a variety of tools and features to manage information, including: I & R, Case Management, HMIS, Shelter Management, Volunteer Request Management, Reports, and many other features Tapestry has to offer.

If you are logged in and do not see links here you may simply not have adequate permissions to access those tools in the system. You will want to contact the Site Administrator for details on using management features.


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Volunteer Opportunities, Requests & Registering to be a Volunteer

There are several ways you can utilize this sites resources to participate as a volunteer locally:

1) there may be Volunteer opportunities already listed via links on the How Can I Help page where you can search and view an opportunity. In the details view of an opportunity there is a link to sign up and 'request' to be a volunteer for it.

2) if you don't see a particular opportunity that interests you,  you may want to simply fill out and submit a Volunteer Registry form. This may also be available via the How Can I Help page

3) if you are already a registered and logged in Tapestry user there may be additional options and you may only need to contact a local volunteer center or the Sites Administrator for specific information on how to participate in local volunteer efforts


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Forums & Communcation

:There may not be an established forum for the public to utilize on this Tapestry site. If you wish to start one or see a need please contact the Sites Administrator for details.

If there are forums available on this site they may be found in a variety of places:

How Can I Help Page

I Need Help Page

Agency Staff Tools Page


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Donor Opportunities

Donor Opportunities may be listed via links on the How Can I Help Page. If you have questions please contact the Site Administrator.


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Making Pledges Online

The public pledge form may be located on the How Can I Help Page. If you have questions please contact the Site Administrator.


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Translation Features

In the Directory of Services among many other areas you may find that there are links in the top right or left of a particular page view that indicates to 'translate or Espanol' click here. If you click on that link the system will transfer you to a site called Babel Fish that can translate the page you are viewing or specific text of your choice to another language.


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Registering & Loggin in

If you wish to be a registered participant of our local efforts or if you are an Agency or Staff member please:

  1. click on the Login tab on the front page of this site
  2. click on the Register Me button and fill in the form you arrive on
  3. be sure to click on the button to submit the form once it is filled in

The codes you are provided will be applicable immediately but if you wish to have advanced feature permissions to manage information you will need to contact the Site Administrator or he/she will be in contact you if you expressed interest on the Registration Form.


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Contacting the Sites Administrator

To contact the System Administrator for this site please call:

or Email us at:

Someone will get back to you within 3 business days.


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