Whether both parents or working or just need to run errands for a few hours, churches are often a resource to turn to when it comes to putting children in daycare. Churches not only provide day care during normal church services, but often throughout the week as well. Employing a Church ID System helps ensure parents and daycare administrators that children and employees stay safe and accounted for.

Chicago B-Cycle is joining the likes of environmentally friendly car sharing companies like I-GO and Zipcar with a new self-service bicycle sharing venture. Chicago B-Cycle is initially launching 100 bicycles at six popular locations around the downtown area with additional drop off locations. The company already has successful programs up and running in Denver and Minneapolis.

Non-profit organizations often organize large volunteer operations that they need to be able to coordinate efficiently and cost-effectively. From disaster relief, volunteering in hospitals, or donating time and resources to schools, non-profit organizations operate a range of programs across the country and internationally. ID solutions help create a system for organizing everyday volunteer activities.

Casinos may seem like a surprising place to find ID cards given the natural imagery of coins, bills, and chips that are associated with gambling. Casino cards, however, can help casinos and other gaming establishments drive customer loyalty and simplify the entire gambling process for customers.

Beginning this fall, the University of Iowa will incorporate student ID cards into a new controlled access system for certain campus recreation buildings. The goal is to ensure students have first dibs on using these facilities, while faculty, staff and the public must purchase entry. The change came about after the school opened a new Campus Recreation and Wellness Center that resulted in each student paying an additional $219 in fees. Because of the extra costs the school felt it would be most fair if only students were granted free admission to these facilities. The best solution was to develop an access control system using student ID cards to grant entry.

Last week we spruced up our website AlphaCard.com with a bevy of additions and improvements that we're sure you'll enjoy. While not a complete makeover, there a few changes to the appearance of the site, and most importantly, we added a significant amount of content to assist you during your search for the right ID card solution.

School buses in Dubai are gearing up for a new school year with smart card readers. Approximately 800 buses will be outfitted with the readers. Each of the 40,000 students who travel to and from school every day on the buses will be issued a smart card that will be used to check students on and off the buses.

With the new school year comes new ID card services for students at University of Central Florida. The school is expanding their student card offerings to give students more options for using and managing their ID cards, especially when it comes to the cards’ cashless payment function.