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A little history

Our Claris FileMaker® templates were born of unmet need in the marketplace. Our templates remain advantageous because they can grow and change with your needs and advancements in workspace platform tools.

Project Ally was created by an architect, Lesley Paiva, to help design professionals manage their business with ease. Design professionals depend upon Project Ally to simplify their work, save time and promote accuracy.

Lesley recognized the need for Projecy Ally while she was an intern architect. After graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech, she was shocked and disappointed to discover how little time architects are able to devote to design; information management takes up at least 90% of an architect's time (or, at least, it seems that way). Luckily, in 1994 she happened upon a copy of Filemaker Pro 2.0 and decided, "Hey, a database would save us a lot of time and help us stay organized. And then I can spend more time on design!" Now she wants to share her knowledge and continuing efforts with you.

Photo: Project Ally's creator, Lesley Paiva, demonstrating her solution at an Architect's convention in November 2001.

Membership Keeper was created by Lesley Paiva to help streamline organizational needs within the parent-teacher group at her child's school. She lives in the city and her children were zoned into a school that didn't have as many after-school programs & opportunities as other neighboring schools with super strong Parent-Teacher Associations. After receiving the blessing from the principal, Lesley set out to promote the school and recruit other parents to build up the PTA at her children's school. Such an endeavor took organization though, and there is where Membership Keeper was born. Every year since 2004, Lesley has continued to improve Membership Keeper and add features. It is her hope that you can take the fruit of her passion for helping one little elementary school and help your school or group too.

Photo: Membership Keeper's creator, Lesley Paiva, proudly wearing her children's school colors at a fundraiser she helped organize in August 2004.

Swap Keeper was created by Lesley Paiva to help organize her neighborhood babysitting co-op. When her daughter was born, it was tough to make friends with other parents. Luckily, a neighbor invited them to join a babysitting co-op and their fortunes changed immediately! They were invited to monthly co-op get-togethers, had trusted fellow-parents to help watch her children and they had a new group of friends! The co-op used to pass around an Excel file to track baby-sitting swaps and members would take turns being the co-op coordinator. It worked okay but member information was a bit of a black hole. With today’s technology such as “the cloud” and smartphones, SwapKeer can help our Circles of Trusted Friends have a better solution: SwapKeeper!

Photo: Swap Keeper can be used to manage many types of swaps, including childcare, eldercare and pet care.

A little about me

ARCHITECT & DEVELOPER

Lesley Paiva

I am a licensed architect (Virginia Tech ’92) with a MBA (Darden-UVA ’97). Over the last 25 years or so I have created these Claris FileMaker® Pro templates to streamline my work and volunteer activities. No sense not offering them to others. Let me know if you think one might be useful to you or your group!


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Our templates are for Claris FileMaker® Pro database software. Claris is an Apple-owned subsidiary and workspace Innovation platform with the flexibility to meet your needs.

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