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  AltruList concept

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  Schema

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  Community service finder based on your specific criteria for charities and it takes into consideration your location.

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  Creating an event

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  After you volunteer you can record your time and input notes that go in the database for auditing and tracking of volunteers hours

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  Looking at volunteer events in your area

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  Finding volunteers that match the skills you need for your organization.

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  Administrative function to be able to register volunteers in the system and volunteer organizations

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  A list of all APIs created in 24 hours to power the app

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  A response from the Eventbrite APIs after I massaged it to meet the requirements.

Inspiration

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. - Sir Winston Churchill

What It Does

Volunteers can search and sign up for volunteer opportunities via web or mobile. Volunteer Coordinators can find active volunteers based on their geographic distance to a site. Volunteers can record text notes and send messages to volunteer coordinators. Volunteers can pin their current geographic location and select preferred areas of deployment. Volunteers can search and sign up for volunteer opportunities via web or mobile. Volunteers can create a profile to share their causes/interests, skills, training, and experience.

How We Built It

Market Research Requirements Gathering Ideation Mockups Proof of Concept Rapid Prototyping

Then we used Angular, C#, SQL Server, Azure App Service, Azure IL, Dapper, NPM, Yarn, Angular and discord. The journey was complex and requires a deep dive. However, we did provide below a link to a power point that discusses high level thoughts and methodologies and the high level architecture.

Requirements

select a preferred geographic region to volunteer in. Volunteers should be able to pin their current geographic location. Volunteers should be able to select preferred days and hours of service. Volunteers should be able to select preferred contact methods. Volunteers should be able to select causes/interests. Volunteers should be able to select skills, certifications, and training. Volunteers should be able to track the hours they have completed for an organization. Volunteers should be able to add notes and comments to their volunteer profile. Volunteer coordinators should be able to search for volunteers by skills, capabilities, and interests. Volunteer coordinators should be able to search for volunteers based on their geographic location to a volunteer site. Volunteer coordinators should be able to check-in volunteers as they report for their assignment. Volunteer coordinators should be able to log breaks taken by volunteers during their assignment. Volunteer coordinators should be able to set up and track volunteer sites.

Features

Create a volunteer profile Volunteers can create a profile to share their causes/interests, skills, training, and experience. Search & sign up for activities Volunteers can search and sign up for volunteer opportunities via web or mobile. Pin & search locations Volunteers can pin their current geographic location and select preferred areas of deployment Receive notifications Volunteers can receive push notifications from organizations requesting assistance or information. Record notes & send messages Volunteers can record text notes and send messages to volunteer coordinators. Search by skills & interests Volunteer Coordinators can search for volunteers by event-specific desired skills, experience, and interests. Location-based matching Volunteer Coordinators can find active volunteers based on their geographic distance to a site. Manage volunteers Volunteer Coordinators can manage and track volunteer hours, locations, and activities.

Implications & Next Steps

Raise seed funding from a coalition of NGOs interested in the app. Evaluate potential gains in revenue, savings, and ROI. Scale and segment marketing strategies. Deploy additional features. Publish to app stores for informal beta testing. Elicit and incorporate feedback.

Differentiation

AltruList differs from existing offerings from Volunteer Match, Citizen Action Team, and HandsOn Volunteer, which powers Centro para el Desarrollo del Voluntariado, in that it integrates the core features of volunteer matching and volunteer management applications, databases, and search engines into a single solution by using power API services and algorithms: API to connect to Eventbrite to search and match volunteers to existing events on the popular event management platform. Custom APIs for sending emails and taking notes. Algorithm to match volunteers and organizations based on event-specific or desired skills, capabilities, causes/interests, availability, and geographic distance.

Social Impact

Using AltruList, volunteer organizations will have real-time access to a broad network of active volunteers who are specifically interested in the causes they support, have the desired skills that they need, and are within the ideal geographic location for easy deployment. The social impact benchmarks for this solution are: Increased enrollment of new and active volunteers. Increase in volunteer satisfaction and engagement. Increase in strength and quality of connections between volunteers and local organizations. Increased interest in civic engagement and global citizenship. Efficient and cost-effective delivery of public goods and services.

Challenges We Ran Into

The main challenge was communication and coordination of task to accomplish the most amount of features in a very short period of time.

Accomplishments We're Proud Of

We were able to create many integrations and custom APIs that were leveraged by Hector , Christian and Bryan. I am proud of their hard work and that they took this opportunity to learn and demonstrate their skills.

What We Learned

We feel confident that we can create a world-class platform for everyone for free, based on the progress that we made in the past 24-hours, and the utility of our PoC. The major challenge we are presented with is the cost of maintaining the application and investing time to continue developing additional features. As is the case for Wikipedia, it makes sense that the community that leverages this resource subsidizes the cost of developing, maintaining, and sustaining it. In terms of our security architecture, there was none. So, we’ve implemented a cron job that will delete our Azure farm.

What's Next for AltruList

Raise seed funding from a coalition of NGOs interested in the app. Evaluate potential gains in revenue, savings, and ROI. Scale and segment marketing strategies. Deploy additional features. Publish to app stores for informal beta testing. Elicit and incorporate feedback.

Contacts

Héctor Orellana Reyes Email: oreyes.hec@gmail.com

José Vélez Email: jjvcllc@gmail.com

Christian Amaro Email: cristianamaro7@gmail.com

Bryan García Email: bexplorador1@gmail.com

Built With

• angular.js
• azure
• c#
• nativescript