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Go Paperless

Save time, money and the environment with our optional services.

Not only are eConfirm and eDirectory great solutions for “going green”, but they are even more attractive when you realize that you will save MONEY as well as trees and energy.

econfirmeConfirm

eConfirm is an online web form service built to reduce most if not all family contact data entry.  Parents enter their information in a secure online form and the administrator simply downloads the data and confirms it right into MyDirectoryMaker.

  • Speeds up directory publishing.
  • Eliminates errors from illegible handwriting.
  • Parents can update throughout the year as their information changes.

epublisheDirectory

Using eBook technology, our eDirectory solution delivers the directory right to your authorized families computers.  You simply send them a link to our secure site, along with their password, and we handle the rest.

  • Uses eBook technology to deliver the directory securely to each family (more secure than paper).
  • No cost to set up. Just upload your directory files and your authorized list of "readers" and we do the rest.
  • Can be updated throughout the year at no additional cost to you or the reader.

Some sobering statistics about paper use

(BTW, your directory printing per year equals 1+ trees):

  • Global paper use has grown more than six-fold since 1950.
  • One ton (200,000 sheets) of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees. One tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets.
  • One ton of paper uses 2 barrels of oil, 28,000 liters of water and 4,100kw hours of electricity. This is enough energy to power the average home for 5 months.
  • Making paper uses more water per ton than any other product in the world.
  • One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources and produces 2,278 lb of solid waste.
  • One fifth of all wood harvested in the world ends up in paper.
  • Pulp and paper is the 5th largest industrial consumer of energy in the world, using as much power to produce a ton of product as the iron and steel industry.
  • In most western countries, paper accounts for up to 40 percent of all municipal solid waste.
  • In 2005, global production of paper and paperboard stood at 354,090,806 tons.