Giving Compass' Take:

• Causeartist interviews Gayle Farman, the founder of Passport for Good, an app that is measuring community engagement for schools and students alike. 

• How can funders help support more programs and apps like this? 

• Here are nine ways nonprofits can increase community engagement. 

This Mother Turned the Tragic Loss of Her Son Into Creating a Lifeline for Other Families
Meet Passport for Good, a mobile and web solution that solves the problem of chronicling and measuring community engagement for schools, while providing a non-academic transcript for students.

The founder of Passport for Good, Gayle Farman, enjoyed a successful 25-year career as a non-profit leader, focusing on advocacy and resource development for health care, developmental disabilities, long-term care and behavioral health care.

As a parent of two daughters and as an active volunteer on non-profit community boards, Gayle saw that there was no easy solution for students and schools to capture the positive impact they were making in their communities — and that so much data was lost using archaic paper systems or having no way at all to record activities.

Read the full article on measuring community engagement by Brenna Lauga at Causeartist.