database for Peacenet containing lists of cities declaring themselves nuclear free zones or supporting a comprehensive test ban. PeaceNet's charges are a $10 sign-up fee, for which you get a manual and several free off-pea~ hours of use. There is a monthly charge of $10. Every additional peak hour use is $10, and every additional off-peak hour is $5. For( More Information: PeaceNet, 1918 Bonita, Berkeley, CA, 415-486-0264 ELECTRONIC LOBBYING SERVICE Compupax, a computer and telecommunications organization has started Constituent Express, an electronic lobbying service Compupax, a Computer and Telecommunications organization, has announced the formation of an electronic lobbying service called Constituent Express. It will .serve the progressive peace, labor, environmental, and social justice communities. Messages are composed and transmitted to the Constituent Express computer and dispatched from there to their destination. Constituent Express will provide overnight delivery of electronically transmitted messages from organizations and their respective members to the U.S. Congress and White House for a fraction of the cost of a mailgram or over-night letter. For less than $80 an organization can send the same message (11 lines maximum, 60 characters per line) to every member of Congress. Single messages can be sent for 50 cents, and the same message text can be sent to multiple people for 15 cents per atiditional addressee. There is a $10/month minimum charge and $25/year subscription fee. For More Information: Compupax, 408 13th St., Suite. 283, Oakland, CA 94612, 415-836-2389 HOUSING INVENTORY SOFTWARE DEVELOPED The Clinton Housing Inventory Program (CHIP), is a software program to monitor information on a neighborFiood 's residential properties Using city data on residences, CHIP feeds the data into its software program, which can store 101 pieces of information on each property. Five database files give information on the property, including basic building statistics (block and lot number, sales information, type of ownership); harassment (a history of housing complaints); alterations (a record of building permits). The software program was was developed with funding from CitiBank by the Housing Conservation Coordinators and the Clinton Housing Development Company. The price: is $450, or $260 for not-for-profit groups ' For More Information: Tad Stahnke, Clinton Housing Information Program, 777 Tenth Ave., New York, NY 10019, 212-541-5996 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Nonprofit Property Management Increases its income by 50-70% by Computerization The West Harlem Community Organization gained a good reputation over several years for property managment, and had done all its management tasks manually. By establishing an integrated computer system, including a computer spreadsheet, general ledger, and accounting, and adapting multi-user network software to management operations, it has been able to expand its management capability from-600 units to 2,000 units, with the addition of only one staff person. The computerization of its management operation has increased its income from property management by 50-75% without proportionate increases in overhead. For More Information: West Harlem Community .Organization, Inc., 240 West 116th, New York, NY, 212-678-5660 Fall/Winter 1986 RAIN Page 37
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