Author: Michael Radigan

Would you like to send your centers professional emails with links to training materials and videos, documents, and more!? If you simply copy the URL (www.blah.com/blahdiblah/blah) and paste it into your email, your reader will see the entire URL, forward slashes and all.  Instead, you can make your words the hyperlink. For example, you can type “click here to view the website” and make the word “here” the hyperlink.

To hyperlink a word or a group of words, first, type your email in Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Word. Then, highlight the word(s) that you wish to be the hyperlink, and right click. Select the “hyperlink” option. At the bottom of the window that is displayed is a field for “Address” – this is where you paste your URL. Then hit OK.

If you are using Microsoft Word and don’t see the “hyperlink” option when you right-click on the word(s) you would like to represent the URL, click on the “Insert” tab at the top of the screen. Click the “Links” button and select the “Hyperlinks” option to display the address window.

If you’re using another program look for the hyperlink symbol (it may look like a sideways “8” which is actually supposed to look like chain links with a globe in the background).  Highlight the word you wish to link, and then click the hyperlink button.

Now you can have professional emails that say things like click here to view our training website and click here to go to our homepage.

Happy Linking!

This week is National Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Week.  No one will dispute that our nation’s children need nutritious food to grow to their healthy, full potential.  This article from Time magazine highlights how difficult this can be in a childcare setting.  All across the country these small businesses are challenged with balancing the need for nutritious food and the need to keep their child care businesses operating in the black.  The CACFP can help them bridge the funding gap, but as this article illustrates, the complexity of the program can be difficult for child care providers to navigate without advocates and mentors to help them along the way.  Our software is one of the ways that participants can help manage the complexities of the CACFP.  But even with good tools in place it is still important for us to advocate for measures that make program participation easier and make the program itself more accessible to those who need it most.

Minute Menu LLC, the premier developer of child care center food program management software products, is proud to announce a partnership with Procare Software, a leader in the child care center software industry. Procare Software users now have access to the features of Minute Menu CX to help manage and streamline the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) claims and reimbursement process.

Minute Menu LLC has developed a utility that allows Procare Software to add Minute Menu CX functionality to its child center management software. This utility is designed to help child care centers reconcile child and guardian identification numbers from Minute Menu CX to Procare, and to transfer new child enrollment information from Procare to Minute Menu CX.

“Procare Software is the first center management software developer to take advantage of the technology Minute Menu has developed to allow for the integration of Minute Menu CX functionality with existing center software,” said Natalie Clark, Chief Operating Officer of Minute Menu LLC.

The integration of Minute Menu CX with Procare Software eliminates the need for child care centers to manually enter meal totals for reimbursement, or to rely solely on the totals determined by a separate software solution.

Integrating Minute Menu CX with existing child care center management software provides a level of compliance verification that is not available when child care centers use two separate software solutions – one to manage day-to-day operations and a separate one to manage CACFP claims.

“Through our new Integration Services, we have made it easy for center management software to handle its core business and seamlessly integrate family enrollment data with our Minute Menu CX product,” said Jeffrey Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer of Minute Menu. “Our customers are able to leverage their investments in both software systems while eliminating duplicate data-entry.”

Minute Menu LLC is excited about the successful integration of Minute Menu CX with Procare Software’s products, and looks forward to future partnerships with center management software developers.

“The integration of Minute Menu CX functionality gives center management software vendors the opportunity to expand their offerings and to provide increased value for their clients,” said Clark. She added that Minute Menu products can be integrated easily with a variety of software solutions.

Child care centers that already use both Minute Menu CX and Procare Software can download the free Minute Menu CX utility to create a truly integrated child food program management workflow.

About Minute Menu LLC

Minute Menu LLC helps improve the quality of child nutrition in the US by creating software products that ensure all CACFP stakeholders have the best management information systems available to them, and by providing the support they need to take advantage of those systems. Learn more about Minute Menu LLC by visiting www.minutemenu.com.