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Volunteer Center of North Texas
www.volunteernorthtexas.org
Mission
the Volunteer Center of North Texas has played matchmaker to thousands of nonprofit
organizations needing assistance – and countless volunteers anxious to help them.
Since 1971, organizations serving a myriad of causes addressing everything from
animal advocacy to violence prevention have relied on the Volunteer Center as their
source of volunteers who want to make a difference.
The Volunteer Center of North Texas makes close to 81,000 traditional volunteer
referrals annually. The time these volunteers devote to the community, combined
with the hours worked by volunteers ordered to perform community service as part
of their probation, adds up to more than two and half million hours! That figure
multiplied by $18.04, the current estimated value of volunteer time, translates
to the equivalent of work performed by more than 1,200 full-time employees at a
value to the community nearly $78 million dollars. Another $10 million worth of
material resources distributed through our Donated Goods Center brings the amount
of total impact to $88 million.
Project
The objectives of our proposal is to make selection of projects and registration
easier for volunteers to do and make a selection and registration all web based.
Currently, we use multiple websites and paperwork to achieve this goal. It is not
very efficient. We wish to improve our efficiency improve our accuracy and make
signing up for volunteer projects easy and pleasant for users.
Our vision is to have an online calendar where online visitors may search for, discover
and register to volunteer for projects needing volunteers. For example, see
http://www.chicagocares.org/calendar.asp
What we currently use:
http://www.handsonnorthtexas.org/
We are trying to separate ourselves from the HandsOn Technologies (HOT) group and
handle the information ourselves because to use HOT, we have to manually enter the
data a second time. We wish to use our own database and own our data onsite in an
automated fashion. We would like a calendar format, one month to a page with events
listed on the day of the activity. Those events come from our database and users
may select events and register for any particular event. Permit users to book overlapping
events as some may register as a group.
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