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Common Problem Statements

Now that we've run this 20+ times there are certain generalized problem statements we've seen more than once. Ok. We've seen them a lot. Ideally this means that these are problems we should create a single solve for.

Volunteer registration and recommendation system

This can be broken up into pieces and we can re-use some of the work we already have.

Typical requirements include:

  • Registration
  • Times available
  • Duration
  • Skill: Painting, Drywall, Electrical, Math Tutor, etc
  • Definition of Opportunities (similar to Signup Genius)
  • Number of people needed
  • Date
  • Duration
  • Need to increase communication between NPO and volunteers - increase engagement
  • Geographic: Find events within a given region or for specific companies
  • Notifications: Notification over Facebook messenger
  • Event Calendar: Facebook events automatically created for reminding people
  • Recommendation of volunteering based on other people and previous volunteering experience

Donation Recommendation system

  • Recommend to person “you’ve donated a TV, do you also have some shoes?” (example)
  • Analyze donation information (either item donations or monetary donations) and determine patterns to better apply marketing to donors

Lightweight Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) (Could be used for tracking of patients or children)

  • Quick registration system
  • Record “treatments"
  • Medicine
  • Music
  • Painting
  • List of medicine providers
  • Role based access
  • Secure
  • Export to CSV/Excel

Automatic Volunteer Hour tracking

GPS device that monitors a geo-fence - records hours spent in a geo-fence - could be done with mobile app

Inventory Management System

Notification system for claiming of foster pets

Prior year submissions

This is still a bit of mess, but the first cohesive attempt to document what we've seen with details.

2015

Chandler Christian Community Center/Chandler Food Bank

Nagi Foundation

Current solution:

Support My Club

Seed Spot

Goal: Build a SalesForce like platform for managing contacts at different phases through the process. Allow for better communication to alumni, mentors, staff, give alumni access to course material. DemandGen platform for Wordpress

https://devpost.com/software/seed-spot-community

Goal: Allow alumni to access course curriculum https://devpost.com/software/seed-spot-solution

United Food Bank

Goal: Digitize volunteer signup forms and integrate with MS Access and Excel

Thought: Google Forms is great for signup as a one time shot, but it would be better if you could aggregate this data together over time with multiple forms. You could create a volunteer signup form and link that to other forms

https://devpost.com/software/ufb-database-revamp https://devpost.com/software/united-food-bank-technocrats

ICAN AZ

Goal: Allow for calendar of events, private alert notifications to user base. They have different events and want people to be made aware of them. Alerts should be bilingual.

Facebook can handle the calendars and reminders. Alerts can also be sent out on Twitter or Facebook. https://devpost.com/software/icanalert https://devpost.com/software/ican-az-app https://devpost.com/software/gideon

MilkMoney

https://devpost.com/software/milkmoney Goal: Sync up volunteering opportunities with volunteers. Based on interest and past volunteering events, suggest and notfify people.

Something is here in terms of specifying the type of volunteering opportunity (eg. Painting), the size (eg. 10 people) and then notifying people when something similar is added. A user would provide their areas of interest, how often they want to volunteer, their skills and this platform would match them with corresponding opportunities. You could integrate this into Facebook so that alerts and posts would directly happen over Messenger and Calendar events.

Children Cancer Network

Goal: Allow a community of people to interact with one another based on the type of cancer you have. This could be done with a closed FB group depending on the type of cancer https://devpost.com/software/children-cancer-connect https://devpost.com/software/cancersucks https://devpost.com/software/kick-back https://devpost.com/software/children-s-cancer-network

2016

Matthews Crossing

Goal: Food Bank manager 1st place: https://devpost.com/software/matthews-crossing-data-manager

Food For Hunger

Goal: Digitization of registration and visualization of user base 2nd Place: https://devpost.com/software/team-12

Lost our Home

Goal: Increase volunteer retention, easy to manage volunteers, keep volunteer records. Volunteer registration, event registration, event notifications, volunteer analytics, admin dashboard, social integration Automatic volunteer hour tracking 3rd place: https://devpost.com/software/team-15

Si Se Puede

Goal: revamp website https://devpost.com/software/team-13

Ubuntu for Students https://devpost.com/software/ubuntu-for-students

Pet Care

https://devpost.com/software/pet-care

Child Crisis AZ

Goal: Inventory management for donations utilizing QR code scanning https://devpost.com/software/childcrisisaz https://devpost.com/software/child-crisis-arizona

Release the Fear

Goal: website redesign https://devpost.com/software/release-the-fear-h3zmbp

Gallant Runner

Goal: track miles ran https://devpost.com/software/gallant-runner-for-gallant-few-dcy91s

MDN Choir and Drama

Goal: Volunteer signup and management https://devpost.com/software/mdn

Make and Investment in Love and Kidness

Goal: increase communication between NPO, donors and volunteers https://devpost.com/software/malk

National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)

Goal: secure volunteer management, donations, program participants, and community members along with some analytics https://devpost.com/software/nami-vos

Smart City Hack

Goals: Registration including skills and interests, forum posts for collaboration for each city https://devpost.com/software/cityconnected-team-15

Chandler Chamber Of Commerce

Goal: Search engine https://devpost.com/software/team-getname-team-2

Read on Chandler

Goals: Event calendar and map with educational links https://devpost.com/software/readonchandler

Chandler Christian Community Center

Goals: Engagement of volunteers using text message reminder alerts and mobile app that mirrors website https://devpost.com/software/cccc-android-app

2017

Sunshine Acres

Goal: Medication logging and excel spreadsheet export for department of child safety requirements 1st place (did not complete): https://devpost.com/software/team-5

Mobile app for House Parents to log medication information and administrative interface to export spreadsheet 2nd place (completed): https://devpost.com/software/team8-sunshineacres

National Kidney Foundation

Goal: This team manually digitized all forms 3rd Place: https://devpost.com/software/team001

Goal: Emails a CSV of the form to a person upon submission MDI Group Award: https://devpost.com/software/team-14

Arizona Council of Economic Education

Goal: Data gathering and visualization on a map of Arizona that used to be done in Excel Galvanize award: https://devpost.com/software/team-18-acee https://devpost.com/software/team-16

Matthews Crossing Food Bank

Goal: Using a CSV already used by the food bank, send a template thank you email to donors

Next step: Look at the data to find donation patterns in order to increase donations https://devpost.com/software/matthew-s-crossing-food-bank https://devpost.com/software/team-12-5nprky

Arizonans for Children

Goal: Allow for registration to be faster for people signing in using a tablet or laptop https://devpost.com/software/arizonan-s-for-children-sign-in-website https://devpost.com/software/team15-arizonas-for-children

Foothills Animal Rescue

Goal: Send notifications to foster families to avoid euthanizing pets

https://devpost.com/software/team-6-foothills-animal-rescue

Joshua Tree

Goal: Inventory management system using barcodes https://devpost.com/software/joshua-tree

Junior Acheivement of Arizona

Goal: Help volunteers to locate places to volunteer and sign up https://devpost.com/software/junior-achievement-for-arizona-application-l4p1jk Goal: Help people search for their own volunteer opportunities https://devpost.com/software/team-11

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Goal: Visualization of abduction data by time of day and geography https://devpost.com/software/team-4-ncmec Goal: Interactive map and data analysis https://devpost.com/software/team-10-gtil1p

Neurologic Music Therapy Services of Arizona (NMTSA)

Goal: Lightweight electronic healthcare records system (EHR) to chart patient progress. Digitize paper forms (paper charting)