Columbia outreach readiness

Review of the South Carolina partner list before any email is sent. Decide each flagged group below — until a group is decided, none of its records can receive an email.

2575
Partners in the list
VolunteerSource, SC
938
With an email address
can receive an email
415
Ready to send
decided, no duplicate
467
Groups still to review
held back until decided
1637
No email yet
needs contact research
85
Same email on several records
223 records would double up
140
Same org, several locations
591 records
13
Already on the map as a provider
not a partner ask

1. Find the missing addresses

1637 records have no email at all, so they cannot be emailed yet. This searches the web for a real published address and a named contact, never guessing one.

2. Look for each location's own address inside the groups

0 records share an address, a brand, or a website with another record. Many of those locations publish their own address — a branch page, a department page, their own Facebook page. Finding it means a group only stays together when the locations really do share one inbox.

3. Write the personalized lines

934 records that can be emailed still have no "we came across you and were impressed by..." line. Without one the email falls back to a generic sentence about their organization type.

2532 records have no named contact yet.

4. Deep-check each record: partner, address, email

Looks up one record at a time on the live web and answers three things: whether the organization really is a partner (rather than a provider we already list on the map), whether its street address is right, and whether the email is the one it actually publishes. It corrects the address and email it can prove, and only reports the ones that look like providers so nothing leaves the list by accident. Running the batches takes a while — it reports how many are left each time.

One email address, several records (85 groups)

These records would land in the same inbox. Keep only the one that should receive the email, or keep them all if each one needs its own copy.

Same organization at several locations (140 groups)

Branches of one brand. Decide whether the organization gets a single email or each location its own.

Records sharing one website (242 groups)

Usually one organization behind several records — but a school district or a university shares a domain across genuinely separate departments, so read before deciding.

Already providers on the public map (1 groups)

These organizations are already free-resource providers, so they never receive the partner email. The pairs that matched cleanly were merged into the provider listing and removed from the partner list; anything left here needs a manual check before it is merged.

Already partner records in the pantry database (1 groups)

The same organization also exists as a partner-type record in the pantry database. These two lists should agree.

No email address yet (first 40) (1 groups)

Held out of the send list until a contact is found.

Audit generated 10/30/2026, 9:24:58 AM.