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CommonTeri Services is a proud Pledge 1% member and participates with extensive pro-bono work and volunteer hours with Literacy Texas. Literacy Texas is a statewide organization that aims to equip adult and family literacy providers with education, networking and advocacy. Teri Walker, CommonTeri’s company founder and CEO has been involved with Literacy Texas since 2015 and has served as the board president from 2017 through 2020. We provide the organization with a free support plan for ongoing Salesforce managed services helping maintain donor lists and maximize promotional opportunities to expand the membership. We also are a continued sponsor of the organization’s annual conference, an important gathering of Texas Adult Educators. Our team even helped the organization with creative social media promotion of the event to help engage with the membership on their first ever virtual conference this past August.
Adult and Family Literacy is such an important cause to Teri and the whole team at CommonTeri Services. When Teri was serving as the executive director of an Adult and Family Literacy nonprofit, she was thinking of all the ways that she could optimize an app for literacy nonprofits with Salesforce. She founded CommonTeri with a commitment to not only giving of time, talent, and a percentage of profits to helping nonprofits use Salesforce more efficiently, but also creating services that would be affordable and sustainable for such organizations to build a long-term relationship and continue their growth for many years. While she could have continued to work to build and improve one nonprofit, no doubt improving the community surrounding her, Teri saw a way to help communities all over the country and the world by assembling the right team of people to help hundreds of nonprofits.
CommonTeri is made up of a team of tech savvy Salesforce experts with a passion for helping nonprofits and we live that every day through both providing affordable Salesforce managed services and maintaining our program management app, Literacy Nimbus. We attend literacy conferences throughout the country, and often present to adult educators on a number of topics including was to manage data to maximize student outcomes, and more!
We’ve found that while this year, we can’t get together, we are hyper focused on using our tech-savvy to help communities everywhere. On any given day we could be leading a board meeting of literacy professionals in Texas, presenting to a group of adult educators in Maine, and supporting a Salesforce consultant based in Louisiana who’s working for a school in Africa, and we love it that way!
