Meet The Need is the only organization to ever build a platform to fix the fundamentally "broken" processes for making those who can help aware of local needs. Church staff is no longer the bottleneck. Charities post needs and, instantly, church members and employees of local companies can view and search for opportunities that leverage their skills and interests. Families walk into churches or charities and administrators know where they've already been and what help they've already received from other organizations. Suddenly, coordination across the city becomes possible, with you as the catalyst for a permanent change in how the city communicates needs and collaborates to meet those needs.

Unity is a tough message to introduce when each church and charity has their own unique interests. But they would all like to increase their impact in the community while taking work off their staff, all with no required fees. So your mission of uniting and mobilizing your city to do more to serve those in need gets accomplished as you share Meet The Need with local organizations.

Because it is so rare that anyone will say "no" to Meet The Need, unity naturally occurs as a byproduct. Widespread adoption of a common platform for serving the city means you're making huge strides toward collaboration. Local needs for volunteers, resources, events, drives, and families are being shared across many organizations "behind the scenes" automatically.

Meet The Need is a powerful example of empowerment, GIVING churches and charities all the tools they've been lacking for so long to efficiently managing their own local charitable activities. Because Meet The Need is private-labeled, needs posted by a local charity appear instantly on your city-reaching web site and Facebook page, as well as the web sites of local churches, businesses, and the charity's own website. And all of it looks exactly like your web site and each of their sites.

Tampa Bay is probably the most connected community anywhere in the world thanks to Meet The Need. Most of the largest churches and ministries use Meet The Need as a shared platform for volunteering, events, helping families in need, running charity drives, etc. During the 2012 Holiday season alone, more than 50% of all church/ministry holiday serving activities in Tampa Bay were facilitated through the use of Meet The Need - including all the Holiday Tents, Toys for Tots drives, Thanksgiving food drives, Metropolitan Ministries, Salvation Army, Hope Children's Home, Habitat for Humanity, etc.

For years, a small unified group of pastors collaborated annually for a community-wide outreach event called Feed The Bay. In 2009, just as Meet The Need began its initial "Beta tests", Feed the Bay decided to use Meet The Need to make it easier to register volunteers from multiple churches at multiple locations.

After the 2009 Feed the Bay, churches and ministries continued to post needs and church members continued to volunteer. Gradually, word spread to other churches and ministries throughout the community. Today, Tampa Bay is connected year-round in serving the community:

• Many of the largest churches in a three county area are using Meet The Need to share local needs with members

• Most of the largest ministries in those 3 counties have replaced their volunteer, resource, case/family and event management systems with Meet The Need

• Nearly all other ministries in the area are on board with Meet The Need, in part because many churches are asking all their ministry partners to use Meet The Need from now on to share needs with their church members

• Charities and churches know what assistance is being provided to families by other organizations – not only past services, but also what is scheduled to be done for them

• Thousands of needs that would otherwise not have been seen are visible to church members and employees of local companies

This impact continues to be felt year-round as the spirit of collaboration city-wide is truly moving families toward self-sufficiency with the local church leading the way!