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We have customers across the community sector. Find the type of customer closest to you and see how they have used MicroAid in their community

The Micah Network - International Member Network
The Micah Network is a group of 290+ Christian relief, development and justice organisations from 74 countries.

Social Enterprise Coalition
SEC is the UK's national body for social enterprise. The voice for the social enterprise sector, SEC supports and represents the work of their members, influences national social enterprise policy and promotes best practices.

Integral Alliance - International Member Network
Integral Alliance is a partnership of 12 Christian Relief and Development agencies.
Every month they send a newsletter to their subscriber base which has doubled since they started using MicroAid. New registrants subscribe online. Newsletters are automatically added to their existing web site at http://www.integralalliance.org

Dreamscheme Network - National UK Charity
The Dreamscheme is a youth charity working with young people in UK and Uganda.
The MicroAid system is their core operations platform for distributing best practice to partner groups (intranet), activity ideas (work projects) and micro-project management (dreamscheme projects).
Dreamscheme are the most advanced user of the MicroAid platform, putting most of its features and power to use.
Imperial Wharf East Residents Association
Volunteer run community group (Member Funded)

2amase offers a range of services to new and existing social enterprises, social entrepreneurs, voluntary and community organisations, umbrella organisations, private businesses as well as the public sector.

Redthread - Manager run community group
The redthread site is for mums, dads and teenagers to meet together online to support the youth projects in Dulwich London.
The first phase of the site is to get the e-newsletter and web site up and running

Imperial Wharf Residents Association is a private member association representing the views of Imperial Wharf Residents in Fulham.
They use the Contacts Database as a Member Database, Extra Intranets to provide a secure area to share letters and minutes, the E-Newsletter for member mailings and the Web Site Builder for public information.



Rotary Club of Battersea Park - Volunteer run member club
The Rotary Club has 43 members and meets every week for lunch and to discuss charitable projects.
They use MicroAid to register volunteers for the yearly Christmas day event in Battersea Park, to allow members to manage their own contact details for inclusion in the Member Directory and the newsletter to send out mailings by post and email.



Griya Asih - Donor supported Orphanage
Griya Asih is an orphanage in North Jakarta.
They use MicroAid to connect the needs of local street children to international donors.
Using their MicroAid system they connected to Mr and Mrs Williams in the UK who have since gone on to raise the first year's funds for them to purchase the house itself.



PUSPEM -
Donor supported school
PUSPEM is the first of the new type of online charity that MicroAid enables. Working in Jakarta and Aceh, Indonesia they report micro-projects back to donors in incredible detail via the system.
They have raised over $50,000 to fund school projects in Aceh, following the Tsunami, from GlobalGiving.org (a US online charity) and from Pasar Malam (the French-Indonesian Association.) All relationships were built online.
Robertson Estate Residents Association
Volunteer run community group
Robertson Estate is a small 150 household ex-local authority housing estate in South West London.
The association use MicroAid as web site platform and Newsletter tool. 90% of newsletters are printed out and delivered by hand.


Goulden House Cooperative - Manager run community group
Goulden House use MicroAid to design and update their web site. They also use the registration form so that residents can register to receive the newsletter.



Patmore Cooperative

Manager run community group
Coop use MicroAid as a Web Platform for their web site. They use the Custom Forms tool to make a Repair Request form on the site for residents to complete,
They saved £125 a month by switching to MicroAid from their previous supplier.


The Doddington West Residents Association - Volunteer run community group
Doddington West Residents Association represents 800 households on the Doddington and Rollo Estate in Battersea.
They have used their web site to market to new members and the newsletter to circulate meeting minutes.

The Bead Hospital - Micro-enterprise
The Bead Hospital are a new business recycling and repairing bead necklaces who have put their first page up on the web using the MicroAid.



Villasave - International small business
Villasave rents out holiday properties in the Algarve and South Africa.
The MicroAid web site is used to showcase the delightful family homes. Owner Denise Wyatt is able to regularly update the site with new photos and changes to pricing.



KISMET - Small Business
KISMET is an art and lifestyle store in Westport Connecticut, USA. They use MicroAid for their web site. Using Custom Forms they have their own input forms for new Artists, Trunk Shows, Art Exhibitions and Press Releases. The system also includes a customised e-shop



PTA Web Services - Reseller
David and Margaret Sallis have put together a demonstrator for selling MicroAid to the PTA (Parent Teacher Assocation) schools market.
They are one of the early examples of a MicroAid reseller - repackaging and rebranding the MicroAid tools for a market close to their hearts. The tool is already in use at Marshgate School.



Richmond Enterprises - Small Business
Richmond Enterprises brought their existing Flash site to MicroAid for completion.
After several days work our graphic designers were able to polish and complete the site to ensure Richmond Enterprises virtual web brochure matched the quality of their real world service.