This month our Editor’s Pick is Chris Dancy. Chris’ bases have made it to the Monthly Metrics Review the past two months in a row and have been copied a total of 364 times. Chris also came in at the #1 spot for new followers this month with +14 and has a total of 31 followers. The two bases that Chris has created have been focused on relief efforts for all those affected by the current global pandemic. Here at BuiltOnAir, we love seeing fellow Airtable users using their skills to bring communities together and that is exactly what Chris is using his Airtable expertise for. 

Chris who refers to himself as a mindful cyborg in his Airtable Universe profile is a keynote speaker and retreat facilitator for executive workshops. Chris has also been featured on many publications such as Showtimes Dark Net and has had interviews with NPR, BBC, and The Wall Street Journal just to name a few. With 25 years of experience, Chris has specialized in the intersection of healthcare and technology and began tracking his own health and wellness using wearable technology devices. You can read more about Chris on his website. 

Bases: 

COVID-19 Financial Assistance System Tracker

This base came in at #1 in the top 10 total base copies with +53 this month. Nicknamed, F.A.S.T., this base was designed to track and monitor programs, tasks, bills, and interactions during the COVID-19 crisis. The goal is to help manage your finances and is grouped by tables to allow for easy navigation. Broken down into different modules for COVID assistance programs, bills, tasks, interactions, and vendors, this base is a great resource to use if you need to track deferred payments, upcoming bills, or any assistance support coming from the government. This base utilizes a lot of Airtable’s bells and whistles with different Views, Filters, and Blocks and really helps to give a great visual to see your next steps, upcoming bills, and more.

Neighborhood Support for COVID19

Chris develop this base to help bring neighborhoods together during our current global pandemic. Using this base, your neighborhood can facilitate volunteers, resources, and support to your local neighbors in need. With 314 copies already, this base seems to be wildly popular among Airtable users and those looking to help lend a helping hand. The base runs off of two forms, one for volunteer signup and one as a help request form. The five different tables will help to organize the data collected by your neighbors and allow you to start using that information as a support system for your community. Chris also supplied 3 great video tutorials that further explain the base and how to get the most out of it. 

While the world may seem a little strange right now, we know we can always count on our Airtable community to continue to surprise us with creative use cases for the tool. What’s even better is seeing those use cases also produce the same sense of community that we feel online to the outside world and even extend to our own neighbors. As always, we look forward to reviewing the Monthly Metrics each month and are blown away each time as we check out the awesome bases that this community creates.