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The new Rainbow House website was put online today at RainbowHouseColumbia.org

The mission of Rainbow House is to keep children safe and to support families in crisis through prevention, assessment, and intervention in child abuse and neglect.

Please consider donating to their wonderful cause today.

As a courtesy to the Rainbow House, Delta Systems owns and forwards http://www.rainbowhousecolumbia.com to their .org site

About Delta Systems

Delta Systems Group is a company founded in 1986 with the vision of helping small businesses achieve their goals through the appropriate use of technology. Over the years, Delta has provided help to hundreds of organizations and individuals throughout the community. Today we provide database, software, and Internet development services in addition to our top-notch network support. As always, if you just need some questions answered, we do that too!

Recently, the Columbia Business Times wrote that Delta Systems is “one of the area’s premier providers of computing solutions.” We are happy to provide an extensive list of references from other companies that needed the exact same solutions that your company seeks.

If you’d like to learn more, let’s go to lunch! I’m happy to listen to what you have on your mind and see how else we can help your organization.

Job Point announced their 2008-2009 Board of Directors this week. Delta Systems Group owner Steve Powell has been named Chairman. Powell was quoted as saying,

“It is an honor and a privilege to help an organization that helps so many others in getting the support and training needed to re-enter the workforce.”

Powell will help lead Job Point through a year that brings the continued challenge of expanding and shoring up program funding sources and the opportunity of moving the corporate headquarters.

The full listing of appointments can be found on the Columbia Daily Tribune’s website at  http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jul/20080719Busi009.asp and is listed below in case they ever kill the link.

Job Point has announced its 2008-2009 board of directors: Chairman Steve Powell, Delta Systems Group; Vice Chairman Jim Robertson, the Tribune; Treasurer Steve Tanzey, First National Bank & Trust Co.; Secretary Patricia “Pat” McDonald, Shelter Life Insurance Co.; Past Chairman Gary Thompson, Columbia Insurance Group; and Member At-Large Linda Tomlinson, KOMU-TV8 & Mid Missouri’s CW. New members include Mary Duffield, University of Missouri secretarial office support; Steve Erdel, Boone County National Bank; Mike Kelly, The Insurance Group; Kate Pitzer,Van Matre & Volkert PC; Rosemary Travis, State Farm Insurance Cos.; and David Townsend, Farmers Title Insurance Co. A dinner is scheduled for Thursday at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center to acknowledge the contributions of outgoing board members Mark Duncan, State Farm Insurance Cos.; and Mary Carnahan, Brown Willbrand Simon Powell and Lewis, Attorneys.

Delta Systems helps a myriad of charitable organizations throughout Columbia mostly in a computer-related fashion. We’re proud and excited to have the opportunity to expand our helpful ways into volunteer leadership roles.

The Central Missouri Food Bank put their new website online today. The improved website provides several enhancements over the previous site.

Vangel Associates generously donated their time to create a unified corporate image for the Food Bank. This included the entire website layout as well as press materials, brochures, and graphics for print and television ads.

Delta Systems Group further enhanced the website by adding the ability for visitors to communicate with the Food Bank staff with web forms that communicate their desire to volunteer, host a food drive, or inquire about more information. Furthermore, the website has been improved to allow visitors to donate money directly from the website. Previously, the site only allowed visitors to fill in the required information and then print and send in the form via the U.S. Mail.

Associate Director Tim Rich had this to say about the new website,

“We really feel that the launch of the new website in tandem with our ‘Food For Families’ campaign is going to be a great help. We are now able to give out our website in press releases and during radio and television interviews so that the public can more easily register to volunteer, get hunger facts, learn about upcoming food drives, and easily make donations to people in need.”

DELTA Game board Program Assists the Central Missouri Food Bank SCORE Against Hunger Campaign

Hundreds attended the Central Missouri Food Bank’s 2003 Club Out Hunger Luncheon as part of the 2003 SCORE Against Hunger Campaign.

The Central Missouri Food Bank (CMFB) hosted the Club Out Hunger Luncheon on Friday, April 22, as part of their 2003 SCORE Against Hunger Campaign. The event is an annual fund-raiser for the Food Bank.

Donors heard Coach Gary Pinkel discuss the upcoming Missouri Tigers football season while they munched on grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, bratwurst and side dishes, all in the MU Tailgate tradition.

New for this year was “Pinkel’s Pigskin Trivia Challenge,” a game that gave teams a chance to demonstrate their knowledge of Mizzou football and to raise money for the CMFB. In exchange for donations to the CMFB, each team could pre-purchase penalty flags they could use to impeded the progress of other teams. In total, thirty-two flags were purchased.

Seven teams competed for prizes such as autographed footballs and MU Tiger media guides; Truman the Tiger, Marching Mizzou, MU Cheerleaders and the Golden Girls were all on hand, generating excitement and an atmosphere charged with good-natured competition.

Players stood on a giant football field and moved up- and down-field as they answered questions correctly. While fun and exciting, this posed a problem: how to let the crowd see “all the action” without the Faurot Field’s video replay screen?

Sportscaster Chris Gervino (left) poses questions while MU Tigers Coach Gary Pinkel looks on.

At the request of CMFB’s Tim Rich and Peggy Kirkpatrick, Delta Systems Group responded quickly with software to display a graphic of the game board on a TV screen with icons representing each team. As the teams’ fortunes changed on the “field” below, the display was updated in real time to show their exact positions.

Reatha Templeton, a staff member at CMFB, commented, “It was difficult to see the markings on the floor with such a large crowd. The game board really tied it all together and helped to keep the crowd updated on the action.”

Competition was fierce, and those penalty flags came in handy: the Purple team got off to a slow start, but was able to capitalize on the eight penalty flags they’d acquired. Two teams crossed the goal line at the same time, but the Purple team answered the tie-breaking question correctly to win the game!