Grand Forks Community Land Trust Chooses WeaverPRM to Help Manage Affordable Housing Initiatives
Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) July 11, 2013 -- The Jones Payne Group, Inc. announced that Grand Forks Community Land Trust (GFCLT) has purchased WeaverPRM™, the firm's cloud-based software that integrates workflow tracking, building, and homeowner information into a system designed to organize and manage parcel and property-based activities. Founded in 2010 as the first CLT in North Dakota, Grand Forks Community Land Trust is committed to providing permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low to moderate income home buyers in Grand Forks.
WeaverPRM's adaptable design will enable GFCLT to address needs in several areas:
● Portfolio management: tracking architectural drafts, RFP responses, bids, and final inspection.
● Document storage: uploading and attaching documents to people/buildings/parcels without data storage limits.
● Tracking subsidy: associating grants and loans with projects (including phasing) as well as with people, buildings, and land.
● Applications: using formula-based waiting list functionality for homeowner selection.
Jones Payne will provide GFCLT with training to organize its diverse types of information about people, land, and buildings for optimum use of WeaverPRM. In addition, the firm will be consulting with GFCLT on best practices for migrating to Google apps, including email, contacts, and calendars.
“WeaverPRM is a secure, easy-to-use, web-based program that is accessible to our staff anywhere, enabling us to track the correlation between people, buildings, and documents,” said Emily Wright, Executive Director, Grand Forks Community Land Trust. “We chose WeaverPRM for several reasons, including its affordability and technical support, and we are especially excited about the waiting list functionality for selecting potential homeowners.”
Grand Forks Community Land Trust
Grand Forks Community Land Trust (GFCLT), founded in 2010 by a group of community members, is committed to providing permanently affordable homeownership opportunities in Grand Forks. The idea for the CLT came in late 2009 when the Grand Forks Housing Authority began researching successful community land trusts in Minnesota and concluded that, although no CLTs existed to date in North Dakota, the model could be successful in Grand Forks. Today, Grand Forks Community Land Trust is the first CLT in North Dakota and is an active member of the National CLT Network.
The Jones Payne Group, Inc.
The Jones Payne Group is a nationally recognized leader in the planning and implementation of community-focused programs and provides architecture, urban planning and design, program management, and information management services and products to the public and private sector. The firm has been involved in a variety of transportation-related planning, design, and technology implementation projects including design and construction for airport environmental mitigation and capital improvement programs. Headquartered in Boston with offices across the U.S., The Jones Payne Group offers planning, community outreach and liaison services, capital needs assessments, existing conditions surveys, community development, and information technology management services.
WeaverPRM, a cloud-based software product developed by the firm's IMS/GIS group, provides property management capabilities to community land trusts, community development corporations, real estate developers, housing authorities, and environmental mitigation programs.
For more information, visit http://www.jonespayne.com or call Andrew Walter at 617-790-3747.
Andrew Walter, The Jones Payne Group, Inc., http://www.jonespayne.com, 617-790-3747, [email protected]
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