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Welcome to another year with SmartSimple! In this year's kick-off newsletter, we would like to start with some words from our co-founders Mike Reid and Keith Yau. Their message will provide you with a snapshot of our achievements in 2017 and how we will be positioning our development efforts this year. Also, we will be sharing some results from the recent Community Engagement Survey and our brand new approach to delivering webinars. A Message from Mike and Keith Mike Reid, COO Happy New Year, SmartSimple Community! Every new year brings a renewed sense of hope and optimism. At SmartSimple, our optimism is driven by our theme for the year: Future-Proof . So why future-proof? In 2017, our strategic theme was Efficiency. With efficiency in mind in everything we do, we have achieved the following: Keith Yau, CTO 192% user growt h - Over 115,000 individual users/month as of December 2017 vs 60,000 individual users/month in 2016 New global mar...

Funding and collaboration are two of the most important factors in medical research, so we at SmartSimple were very excited to learn of the newly announced initiatives involving Brain Canada Research Fund , the Government of Canada, the Azrieli Foundation, and the Chagnon Family. This collaboration will provide funding for five research projects focusing on Alzheimer’s disease and Autism, with specific focus on the treatment and prevention of Autism sprectrum disorders, Fragile-X syndrome, and Alzeimer’s disease. To learn more, visit the Azrieli Foundation 's website or read their news release here: http://www.azrielifoundation.org/2014/05/azrieli-foundation-partners-with-federal-government-in-15-million-investment-in-fragile-x-and-autism-research-in-canada/ Find out more about SmartSimple, our partners in research, or our research management system RMS360 ° ,  by contacting us at info@smartsimple.com or visiting our main website .

SmartSimple would like to congratulate our partner, the Rotary Foundation , for receiving the prestigious silver Edison Award! The Edison Awards recognize and honor the very best in new product and service development, as well as marketing and human-centered design and innovation. This award recognizes the Foundation's Future Vision Plan, which is a grant model that greatly enhances global volunteer collaboration. Future Vision offers two grant categories: Block grants , which allow different Rotary districts to carry out short-term local projects (such as community events); Global grants , which districts use in order to develop high-impact, sustainable initiatives, either locally or internationally (i.e. scholarships, humanitarian projects, vocational training, etc).  The Rotary Foundation, founded in 1917, is a non-profit organization focused on offering humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. To this day, it remains one of the largest interna...