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With the recent launch of Grouptrail, we are extremely excited to announce The National Crittenton Foundation as our first official partner! The National Crittendon Foundation is over 130 years old and alongside their large family of agencies, seeks to support girls, young women, and their families living at the margin of the American dream overcome major obstacles rooted in circumstances not of their own making.

"We believe in the power of potential in girls and young women," said Holly Weems, Director of Resource Development. “We believe that their future is not dictated or determined by their past but rather by our ability as a society to support their will and determination to transform their lives.”

Through the newly announced partnership, Grouptrail revenue funds will go to help the Foundation’s #BeSomething campaign, which will showcase girls and young women as they celebrate their strength, resilience and achievements. The idea behind the campaign came from a group of over 20 women who decided that the hardest part about leaving an agency or treatment center was the lack of support once you leave or are back at home. The women decided that having a network of other supportive women to help in achieving self-empowerment was critical to their success.

The campaign has been in the works for quite a while, but will officially kick off in January of this upcoming year and aims to encompass an educational institute alongside a society of women coming together to build social capital and support one another.

Through the social media aspect of the #BeSomething campaign, women can upload pictures of themselves and use the hashtags #BeBold, #BeDetermined, #BeResilient, etc. Women are also encouraged to create a video, meme or picture stating their achievement and encouraging other girls and young women in their life to do the same. By sharing a story, women can amplify their strength and show that they are resilient, despite the circumstances.

Grouptrail is extremely excited to support the Crittenton Foundation in their efforts to empower girls and young women. To learn more about the campaign and get involved, visit the campaign site as well as The National Crittenton Foundation Twitter and Facebook accounts. 

We designed Grouptrail for you and the groups you collaborate in every aspect of your life. And we designed it to help you GET STUFF DONE.

It all starts with a simple, fast, responsive user interface that makes it quick and easy to add new members to their groups, know when someone has contacted them with @ mentions, find the information they want, and get everyone on the trail to sharing and collaborating. 

We also made it incredibly easy to attach and share photos and files within each of a user’s groups and added Dropbox integration to insure that groups have plenty of storage to work with.  

All of this stuff is good, basic stuff for helping people get stuff done. But we’re not satisfied with good, we wanted Grouptrail to really stand out, so we thought about adding a few unique features that we know are going make groups more productive and more effective than ever before. These features are unique to Grouptrail and serve as the launching board for future feature ideas.

Threaded conversations

Threaded conversations help keep you on top of everything that’s being shared by your group in each of your trails. By organizing conversations by date, you can quickly locate the information you need to keep things moving forward. 

Need to find that file your group member sent last Saturday? Threaded conversations also make it quick and easy to see conversations as they happened, day by day, and allow you to get to the point in the conversation you need to be in to download that important file attachment. 

Polls

Give everyone on your trail the opportunity to make a choice that puts your group in a position to make decisions quicker. Our Polls feature gives users the flexibility to post anonymously or to add up to X poll options per poll and decide whether or not group members can select more than one option. It’s a quick way to get everyone’s input and keep the ball rolling!

To-do lists with claimable items

Every good meeting has an agenda, but what if you are in a small group and you’re not meeting face to face? Grouptrail lets you post an interactive to-do list to your group so that members can decide which items they can do and then gives them the option to claim an item.