Access Art desires a website that is aligned with the organization’s strategic goal to diversifying through funding. The site design should convey a story for giving and draw in donations, art purchases on the web store front and advertise services by artists such as workshops, murals and new fund opportunities.

The organization would like to position the brand as youthful, creative, bold, engaging, and community focused. The website should be dynamically engaging with social media integration, simple and beautiful with images of youth work as a primary design element.

Access Art would like to accomplish the following priorities in the order listed:

1. Create a website that is easy to manage and maintain. Staff members should be able to easily update the website without the need to hire technical experts.
   • The website should showcase the youth work and tell a compelling story to draw in funding and engage new donors.
   • The website should have a web storefront to sell youth art work and reach out to a broader audience.
   • The website should have a volunteer registration page. Volunteers can fill out the online form and submit. The submission is sent to a dedicated organization email for processing.
   • The website should have a page to highlight services provided by Access Art such as workshops, classes, speaking sessions & etc.
2. Improved method to disseminate information instead of MailChimp.
3. Integrate social media to share the organization’s news with a broader audience.
4. Raise awareness on the organization’s mission.

Alternative Directions is looking to add enhancements to their website, which was developed in WordPress.

The main high level business requirements include:

1. Creating a user manual which provides information on how to maintain the website: http://alternativedirectionsinc.org/. (For example, uploading and updating documents, maintaining blogs).
2. Incorporate the sibling website CHIP: http://www.chipmentoring.org/) to be a part of the ADI site and use WordPress.
3. The system shall allow the staff to create email addresses with the 'alternativedirections.com' domain.
4. Redesign the homepage of the website so it's more user friendly, flattened, and restructured to have areas/tiles dedicated to the major areas (programs, etc) of the site. Also want to change and enhance content, reduce size of images to improve site performance, add a calendar of events and display Community Partners.

Arts Every Day (AED) would like to build a member/donor database to support daily operations and data management. The existing business processes are based on a large collection of shared MS Excel spreadsheets.

AED partners with 35 Baltimore City Schools. Spreadsheets are used to track and manage relationships with school team members, school coordinators, school principals, contractual teaching artists, a variety of art organizations, and donors. Many internal and external business processes are also managed using spreadsheets.

Goals:

• Centralized and effective data management
• Improved reporting capabilities
• Operational efficiencies
• Donor management
• Cost savings where possible ​

Camp Opportunity provides at risk children with the opportunity to stay at a sleep-away camp, enjoy camp life, have their own counselor for the week, and provides the children with tools and activities to help build self-esteem and other skills. Camp Opportunity is a volunteer run organization who recruits new counselors, nurses, drivers and other volunteers every year.

Camp Opportunity requires an on-line tool for external users to register, manage their contact information and fill-out the application. Additionally, users should be able to download other forms to have filled out to complete their application. This solution should allow an administrator to have access to the completed application and functionality to print as desired. This solution should allow administrators to run reports to pull contacts for tasks.

They are requesting functionality allowing users to purchase items for campers using Pay Pal.

Charm City Animal Rescue (CCAR) is a 501c3 organization based in Baltimore City, MD. CCAR does not have a facility, but is an ever-growing network of foster homes that enable them to save and adopt out almost 300 cats per year! CCAR does not receive government funding, but relies solely on donations, fundraisers, and grants to support their efforts.

This project is an opportunity for team members who have experience with an interest in learning about database development (SQL). The goal of CCAR is to make some database changes to better suit their needs and for it to increase user-friendliness and database. This includes creating an animal count, intake data, and outcomes of those rescued and/not.

The database itself is a SQL Compact database that can be downloaded via FTP

Charm City Clinic is a non-profit free clinic and health resource center in Baltimore City. The facility is largely run by volunteers made up of Baltimore medical, graduate and undergraduate students. They provide free and low cost health insurance eligibility screening and application assistance to individual's who are either under insured or not insured at all. The clinic has grown over the years and has recently reached a landmark of helping over 1,000 East Baltimore residents. As the clinic has grown, so has the need for volunteers. With additional volunteers, there have been issues trying to coordinate and communicate effectively. Charm City Clinic is looking to Baltimore GiveCamp to help find a solution to their internal communications issues. ​

Citizens Planning & Housing Association has 2 projects as part of GiveCamp this year.

Project 1 Summary:

CPHA would like to build a webpage with Bus Stop Simulation Process. The goal is to build a simulation tool which the user can modify (allow any number of bus stops to be removed). This tool will improve their rides/bus experience. CPHA wants to implement this system on all the Bus routes in/from Baltimore. The generated output panel will reflect: Trip Time saved (before and after removing stops).

Project 2 Summary

Build a new website for Baltimore Neighborhoods through which they want to promote the Neighborhoods and also want a smart application on a mobile which can detect location & track neighborhood information. The Tags & Categories of Neighborhoods will be displayed using either a Wordpress Plugin 3D Tag Cloud or Office 365.

Compass Academy is a private, non-profit school for children in grades 1-12, which serves bright students with average to above average cognitive ability who struggle with learning and social differences. These include: speech and language disabilities, specific learning differences, ADD/ADHD, and/or high-functioning Autism Spectrum disorders.

Compass Academy's key objectives for GiveCamp include:

1. Social Media – We want to enhance our social media footprint so it's easy to manage/maintain, in an effort to attract potential parents and students into wanting to learn more / attend Compass Academy. Also want to integrate social media so we can share the organization's news with a broader audience.
2. Website Enhancements – improve and update website so Staff members can easily manage

The goals are to have a website and Facebook page that showcase the student work and tell a compelling story to 1. draw in funding and 2. engage new donors.

This project is a website development opportunity for tech/design team members who have experience with--or a desire to learn about--(1) software development processes, (2) Web Development, (3) user experience design (UXD). They are looking to add enhancements to their existing website that can be sustainable by existing staff. They are open to using whatever development tools fit both the project and the skill sets of GiveCamp technical/design volunteers.

Empowerment Temple empowers the world educationally, politically, economically, spiritually and culturally. Because we are believers as well as doers of the word. After completion of new members class, each member of Empowerment Temple is required to become an active member of one of many Empowering Ministries inside the temple to help empower others outside the walls of the church.

Faith Fellowship Church needs a website makeover, and will use Office 365 / SharePoint to enhance their presence on the web (use HTML now).

Major points to note:

• They want the site to be user friendly for those maintaining/updating the website and for the user.
• They want to Incorporate social media connection (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube)
• Want a site that's mobile device friendly
• They want to optimize how the donors, volunteers, scholars, parents, mentors, and leadership team communicate amongst each other and across groups.
• Currently, the church uses Dropbox as a document repository for Bible Study notes and they would like a way to incorporate this in their website (this is preferred, not a requirement).
• They want a shared calendar integrated in the website (calendar for the public and one for internal users like Ministry Leads). It should display in the newsfeed of upcoming events, but once the link is clicked on it shows more detailed information about the event. Import Mail Chimp on password side of the website and take snapshots of the newsletters and place on the home page.
• They also want a Database that captures all contact information that comes on the website for each person to include if they have donated and the last time they donated.

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This project is an opportunity for tech/design team members who have experience with--or a desire to learn about--(1) Agile development, (2) web analytics, and (3) user experience design (UXD).

Glenwood Life Counseling Center is a private non for profit organization established in 1971 to provide outpatient treatment to narcotic addicts in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Glenwood provides methadone maintenance treatment to its patients along with individual, group and family counseling. Glenwood's mission is to deliver quality, medication-assisted treatment to adults in the least restrictive, most respectful manner possible and to provide enhanced services so that the patients can embrace recovery and live healthy, drug free and productive lives.

Glenwood does not currently have a website. It does have a Facebook page under Glenwood Life Counseling.

In addition to functional requirements, four areas of focus are: ease of use (for both site visitors and volunteers who update the website), simplicity of user experience, ability to make minor changes to the website by the Glenwood IT staff, and ability to have a calendar of activities included on the website of the clinics counseling schedules. A plus would be the ability to make patient appointments from the website.

The Golfers for Charity Foundation (GFC) is a Nonprofit organization that conducts golf events to raise funds for children in need. GFC created these events to have a social networking partnership between engineering companies, individuals and other professionals to get together, have fun and give back. At the present time all proceeds are donated to two charitable organizations (Ronald McDonald House of Maryland & The Healing Hands Foundation). All funds are allocated to help children in need.

This project is simple. We want to make sure all golfers can see what GFC is doing by sharing info and photos of the events. Also would like to have a system that golfers can register on our web site for our events and submit their donations/payments.

Haiti in Transition is a volunteer organization that raises money to support recontruction in Haiti. They also plan volunteer trips to take volunteers to help out in Haiti.

They are are seeking to develop an attractive website with features that will allow us to:

• Display beautiful images from our projects,
• Allow us to capture member subscriptions,
• Integrate application processes for job openings and competitions,
• Integrate e-commerce capabilities to be able to sell our t-shirts
• Integrate social media features such has twitter handles, and pinterest pin it buttons
• Capture analytics on website traffic (add Google analytics)

This project is an opportunity for WordPress (WP) developers and Web Designers who have experience with- (1) WordPress Development, (2) Innovative Web Design\ WP Template Layouts, (3) web analytics, (4) jQuery/Ajax (5) PHP/MYSQL. The end web product needs to be sustainable by existing staff.

The client current website is built using WordPress. The client has customize the website to the best of their ability and now seeks advance (web design) help in helping them get their mission out.

Imagine Me Ministries is a local mentoring organization working to improve the well-being of Middle School girls through long term one-on-one mentoring relationships. The after-school program and weekend activities including academic assistance, cultural enrichment, career exposure, social development, and health education provide participating girls with a wholesome, stimulating and well-rounded experience.

This project is to develop a new Data Management system in .NET/Microsoft stack.

The functional requirements are:

1. Track and report demographic data per mentee and mentor
2. Manage the application and screening processes for both mentees and mentors
3. Track the mentor/mentee matches
4. Track activity and mentoring session data
5. Conduct surveys after activities

We need 3-4 programmers with experience using .Net MVC using C# and razor templates, especially people familiar with TortoiseGit, Visual Studio 2012 and open source CMS libraries for .NET. They should bring laptops, ideally with TortoiseGit and Visual Studio 2012 already installed.

We also need a graphic design & Website layout design person early in the process to (1) design the Home Page web layout and color scheme and (2) design some graphic elements for the site including the header graphic.

Our plan is to use an iterative Agile-style approach so we'd like to have people with experience in Agile or interest in learning about it. Finally, WordPress experience is a plus because we may possibly use it for part of the site.

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Maryland Justice Project is committed to representing and enhancing the rights of incarcerated and previously incarcerated men and women. This goal is furthered by community involvement, volunteerism, donations, fundraising and other events.

The leaders of Maryland Justice Project have discovered that many non-profit organizations in the Baltimore compete for the same monetary and human resources needed to accomplish their goals. To assist in alleviating this completion and foster more cooperation and collaboration between organizations, Maryland Justice Project would like to build a new web site designed to enable this collaboration. The website will be done in SharePoint / Office 365.

The features of this site include:

1. A Calendar available to all non-profit organizations
2. Links to partner organization sites
3. Ability to donate
4. Information about volunteer opportunities

This project is an opportunity for tech/design team members who have experience with--or a desire to learn about--(1) software development processes, (2) web analytics, (3) user experience design (UXD). The end product needs to be sustainable by existing staff.

MMYFC holds 2 conferences per year for over 6000 young people. Currently MMYFC uses spreadsheets to compile youth, volunteer, and vendor information. The goal of MMYFC is to have a user-friendly database (possibly linked to website) created, including volunteer registration and a secure system using database software. All participants will login with username and password.

Moveable Feast is an organization that provides meals, weekly groceries, and nutritional counseling to homebound individuals living with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. The Finance Team is in need of an asset management and automated depreciation database that will allow them to track over $2 million worth of assets. This type of database is critical for a larger 501c3 to ensure this information is easily accessible and most importantly accurate at all times in case of an audit.

Moveable Feast is currently using Excel to track, maintain and report on hundreds of assets.

High-level system requirements:

• There is no money to support this project – it needs to be a free solution.
• The database needs to be simple, easy to use and to maintain (not technical).
• The database should be branded with their colors and logo.
• The system should be secure.
• The system needs the ability to add assets and collect attributes about the asset.
• The system needs the ability to copy an existing asset and/or add multiple assets at the same time (i.e. when multiple identical assets are purchased).
• The system needs the ability to search for and edit an asset. * The system needs to be able to automatically calculate straight-line depreciation for an asset.
• The system needs reporting capabilities. There is a set of standard reports that need to be developed. As well as having ad-hoc reporting functionality.

My Pillow Pack distributes pillow packs (Pillow, Pillow Case, and Blanket) to people in disaster and to all who need them. They have a web site (hosted on GoDaddy) with 2 templates (Site itself + shopping cart), and site is connected to WordPress, PayPal, Youtube, facebook, and twitter.

They want the following enhancements:

1. Add a Blog
2. Ability to upload pictures
3. Ability to embed videos (or links to videos)
4. Update contact information
5. Create a Sponsor’s page
6. Design Bar-Code for Mobile-Web ​

Neighbor Ride is a non-profit organization that connects volunteers with seniors that need transportation. This organization has a phenomenal mission and they are dedicated to helping seniors remain active and independent by providing transportation for activities such as medical appointments, social outings, religious services, shopping and other day-to-day needs.

Currently Neighbor Ride has a dated look-n-feel on their website that presents poorly to potential supporters and participants. In addition to the lack of aesthetics, the website does not incorporate proper human centered design practices that allow a user to intuitively find the information they need. The Neighbor Ride project seeks to modify the website with html/css or by creating a new WordPress site. Neighbor Ride needs a strong web presence to satisfy all of its constituents and supporters.

​​New vision currently has their email hosted on a limited server as part of prior GiveCamp projects. They have run into a space limitation for email and need more storage. The GiveCamp project is to transition their email to another host.

​​The Pink Petals Foundation will focus on reconstructing women after their breast mastectomy. Providing women with reconstruction for symmetry of the breast, especially if they are unable to pay for their surgery due to no insurance, or financial constraints. The deformity may be due to cancer, trauma, burns, or congenital birth defects. Funds will strictly used for their surgery, facility, anesthesia, post op care, future revision surgery, and complications due to reconstruction. The need will be distributed on a financial need bases, and priority of severity of defect. This will be voted on by a board of well informed breast cancer advocates and without bias.

This year, we'll be updating website, adding enhancements/functionality, and deploying. Primary functions will be:

• Updating to Orchard CMS 1.7 (latest version)
• Enhancements to website
• Defining the minimum needed to be considered production, and then deploying site.

The Red Shoe Crew is the Young Professional Group of Baltimore's Ronald McDonald House, a children's charity that acts as a "home away from home" for children who are doing extended hospital visits. The Crew is engaged with service, support, and awareness of the House.

The www.redshoecrew.org site was created in asp.net MVC, HTML5, and CSS3 at the 2012 GiveCamp. This year, we are looking to make the following enhancements:

1. make site design more responsive and mobile friendly
2. introduce more content management functionality
3. more social media integration
4. include integrated Youtube videos
5. make additional enhancements to the site, so it's used as a marketing tool and a member resource

The vision and objective of GiveCamp 2013 and Sacred Zion Full Gospel Baptist Church is to further refine the website in the areas of organization, appearance, style and functionality. This project will involve mostly configuration, using the site hosted by Charity Advantage; there will be minimal hard-core coding. The link to the current site is http://www.SacredZion.org.

Goals include:

• Improve home page appearance and navigation
• Enhance the congregation database - email Addresses, Members' Areas of Interest (talents), and Ages of Family Members Bulk emails, requires data base with accurate mailing information, input and maintenance.
• Pastor message archive strategy (time period) with an emphasis on consolidating information by year. Note restriction: Charity Advantage limits us to 9 pages, but unlimited sub-topics.
• Develop Strategy to drive more users to website (points of interest?)
• Leveraging the capabilities and style of http://www.gcchoco.org/ website as the blueprint for Sacred Zion site. Blueprint Crossover Examples Direct access, one click for different church functions: ministries, programs, activities, areas of interest etc. Current state is drop down menus or typing in query bar.
• Using home page of msbcministries.org the attractive colors and strolling current events should be considered as the home page of Sacred Zion site.
• Change Current Home Page Pictures - Charity Advantage has function, more user learning is needed so webmaster can take over function.
• Integrate vast biblical resources of web into the home page so end user can improve learning without having to search the web. For example bible sources, terms, pictures of key biblical events.

These improvements will better serve the congregation, community and potential new church members across all layers of social media.

Special Olympics is looking to do enhancements to their Pre-Existing Online Sports Registration system, which is in WordPress.

Executive Summary of Requirements

1. Integrate athlete medical expiration dates. This information currently exists in MS Access.
2. Addition of multiple parent/guardian contact information.

User Stories for Requirements

Story: Email About Missing/Expired Medical
The online registration system shall email the parent/guardian of an athlete who is registering online, but whose medical form is invalid/expired or whose medical form is non-existent. This will enable the parents/guardians to be informed that their athlete may not participate until they have a valid medical form, and their athlete's registration is not yet complete.

Story: Enter/Update Medical Expiration Date
As office manager, I want to enter/update the expiration date of an athlete's medical form into the online registration system so that the system can determine if an athlete may participate, and an athlete's registration may be confirmed complete.

Story: Multiple Parent/Guardian Information
The online registration system shall accommodate information about multiple parents/guardians for an athlete so that SOMDHC staff may be able to contact all individuals associated with an athlete.

The mission of The Healing Hands Foundation is to sustainably provide high quality surgical procedures, medical treatment, dental care, and educational support in under resourced areas worldwide. We establish strong in-country partnerships to involve local communities in our activities: treating patients, improving health care infrastructure, and providing needed medical training to surgeons, doctors, and community health care workers. Going beyond providing direct patient care, we aim to create a long-term impact, empowering impoverished countries to improve the health and quality of life of their own people.

This year, we'll be updating website, adding enhancements/functionality, and deploying. Primary functions will be:

• Updating to Orchard CMS 1.7 (latest version)
• Enhancements to website
• Defining the minimum needed to be considered production, and then deploying site.

The Executive Director and the staff currently rely on paper-based files similar to nursing charts to keep track of clients, their periodic visits, and the plans of action and referrals. They would like to replace the paper with a simple web application that stores client profiles, records visits and action plans and generally tracks clients and can be used to generate periodic and annual reports of their client activities to simplify grant applications that MFC submits as part of its funding.

Therefore, we need designers/technical developers who have experience in web app development, simple database transaction processing linked to web site forms, and simple reporting of client visits and interventions. Only a small number of personnel would use this to log the information and migration of existing data is open to different approaches. There is no desire for a substantial back end network or significant support costs so as much as possible, the client profile and visit recording applications should use zero or low-cost hosting platform. In addition, another priority (for now or later, the Tech Lead will be making recommendations on this) is to have a simple donor contribution web page that is public-facing and use Paypal or similar app to enable contributors to donate and that would track their profiles and donation records.

The Webb Group, Inc. is an educational learning center that recognizes and respects the uniqueness of each child. Established in 2007, the center's primary mission is to foster a love of learning in each student. Their curriculum skillfully weaves artistic and practical disciplines into everyday academics. Students learn to follow their curiosity, think creatively, and work both independently and cooperatively with others. At the Webb Group they celebrate diversity and strive to instill integrity, compassion and confidence in each child.

Business Need: GiveCamp 2011 and 2012 provided the Webb Group with a functional website to create a web presence for the organization and help communicate with the on-line community. The website has increased the web presence but display errors within the site on web site itself and problems with the calendar of events page are needed. Additionally, the Webb Group would like: to show links with business partners and help provide cross marketing with these partners and to add an academic area of support page within the website that would allow youngsters needing homework/other academic support to e-mail a teacher in that subject area.

Solution: The Webb Group would like their current website enhanced to add a Business Partner Page, add an academic support page and have the current display problems with their web pages resolved. This should be built on top of the web content system current in place on the current website.

Objectives of Project: The objective of the project is to build a website for The Webb Group that will promote the organization's purpose and functions and provide the mechanism to enhance marketing and expand volunteering functionality.

Bicycle Inventory and Timesheet Web Application Spec - Velocipede Bike Project

Velocipede is a volunteer run organization which currently keeps track of its bicycles and member's volunteer hours using pen and paper and a stack of binders. The goal of this app is to replace pen and paper with a database and web based user interface, and share the open source code so that it may be used and customized by other bicycle collectives around the country.