SHINE Knowledge Base
What does this Knowledge Base do?
- Provides a web-based tool to manage volunteers and catalog social ministries at the parish and diocesan levels.
- Allows for greater collaboration within and between parishes for new and existing social ministry efforts.
- Creates communication networks between individuals and groups conducting social ministry.
- Integrates social ministry work into the everyday life of the parish and diocese because of ease-of-use.
- Connects the work of Catholic Charities with more parishes and parishioners.
What is a Knowledge Base?
Simply, it is a special kind of database for knowledge management, providing the means for the computerized collection, organization, and retrieval of knowledge. Specifically this knowledge base was designed to manage all things social ministry for our archdiocese.