Client: Community Technology Center AmeriCorps VISTA Project
Year: 2007
Project Overview
We built the organization application and reporting system backend using PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS—including AJAX. The system enabled organizations to create and track multiple applications and reports, submit their applications and reports electronically to the Project, and download PDFs of any application or report.
Project Objectives
- Streamline the application process for non-profit organizations that wish to host AmeriCorps VISTAs.
- Facilitate and centralize the periodic reports that VISTAs and their supervisors compiled.
Awards
Grassroot.org’s Techie Award for “pioneering contributions in nonprofit online applications development,” April 2007.
Team
Paul Hansen (design) and Saul Baizman (development).
About the Client (Community Technology Center AmeriCorps VISTA Project)
The Community Technology Center AmeriCorps VISTA Project (rebranded the Transmission Project) placed AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) members in community media and technology centers across the country to help bridge the digital divide.
Assets
Form 424, which asked for details about the organization.
The project narrative.
The project plan, which detailed what objectives the VISTA would accomplish.
The organization can both generate a PDF and submit the application electronically.
VISTA members and their supervisors filled out separate question sets.
Supervisors commented on VISTAs’ progress achieving the objectives stated in the project plan.
The supervisor could create a PDF for her files and submit the report to the CTC VISTA Project.
A listing of all organizations and applications.
The editor allowed the CTC VISTA Project to create new reports for supervisors to complete, send reminders to supervisors whose reports were overdue, check the submission status of the reports, and convert them to PDF for submission to the Project’s parent organization, the Corporation for National and Community Service.