Charity Check, a computer software database, now offers churches and charitable organizations the ability to keep track of the good they do – and who’s asking for more.  But charities in the Seymour area have not tapped into it.
For $10 a month, Charity Check allows organizations to log people they help into an online database.  If someone accepts a handout from one church and enters the system, another church using the software will see how many times that person has been served.
The company designed the program to allow these organizations to prevent scammers from bouncing from one church to the next looking for handouts.
Bryan McKnight, pastor of the Summit Church, said that he was aware of the system, but didn’t use it for the church’s donation coffee shop “The Living Room.”  He indicated that using the program could be time consuming and since they dealt with small dollar amounts, it wasn’t worth the time.
He also pointed out that even if they were stolen from, they could count on God to provide what they needed.
Likewise, Buddy Greene, director of C.R.O.S.S. Ministries, said they also did not use the system and that he knew nothing about it.
Adherents to the program say it not only helps save resources from being squandered, but allows them to pick up on trends in what is being given out to the needy.  
As of now, Seymour charities do not feel the need to track those they help, but as economic times worsen, the possibility to enact such a change exists as long as the technology is available.

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