On the board in ten minutes.
Built for a busy front desk with a phone in hand. Five short steps, nothing to install, and you can stop and come back.
Concept. Nothing is saved or sent. People, phone numbers and the text line are samples.
Claim your listing
Confirm who you are so neighbors see the right organization.
Start from the list you already have. We turn it into shared categories so a neighbor searching for "socks" finds every nonprofit that takes them.
Tell neighbors exactly where to bring things and when.
Anyone you add can change a status by text. No login, no app.
Your Doorlight text line
Save this number in your phones. Four commands do everything.
FULLSet a category to Full. Example: FULL LINENSNEEDMark a category as needed. Example: NEED SOCKSACCEPTOpen a category back up. Example: ACCEPT LINENSYESKeep everything as it is when a reminder arrives.
Sample command words and number. Texts carry categories only, never client names.
This is what neighbors will see. Check it, then go live.
You are on the board
Neighbors can now see YWCA Kalamazoo and its statuses.
- 1Send a test text. From a team phone, text NEED SOCKS to the Doorlight line and watch the status change.
- 2Share with your team. Send the cheat sheet to each person you added.
- 3Look for the reminder. In 7 days a text will ask you to keep or change what is listed.
Why it is short
- One thing per screen, large touch targets, works with one thumb.
- Your list is prefilled from what is already public, so there is nothing to retype.
- Every sample is labelled Sample. Only the GiveGab list and the 2022 notice are sourced.
Sources on this screen
- GiveGab listing for the YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter wish list, United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region. Ongoing, undated.
- Kalamazoo College HR, "Help the Kalamazoo area community", May 2022: 353 E. Michigan Avenue, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 am to 5 PM.