Charities
There is no deadline yet. Submit your charity proposals!
Local media will be invited to attend.
Start off with completing the Charity Proposal form on this site located here.
A charity analyst will then work with you to determine if you are a good fit for Philly Give Camp. If you are selected, a representative of your charity must attend the kick-off meeting on Friday afternoon and at least one of your members must attend the demo on Sunday afternoon. The person who attends the demo should be your technical expert. Ideally, representatives from your charity should be present the majority of the weekend so you can work closely with the developers and designers to ensure they are on the right track.
If you already have your own hardware or a hosting provider, you will be provided with instructions on how to deploy your new application. If not, we are asking for sponsorship from local and national hosting providers to provide hosting for free or at a discounted rate. All of this will be explained, and we will guide you through the process throughout the weekend.
The number of developer volunteers will allow us to select one charity for each 4-5 developer volunteers.
Your proposal will be used as the blueprint for your application. The more specific your proposal the happier you will be with your application. This is just some of the information that you should include:
- What is the objective of the system? Describe the problem this system will solve.
- Are you requesting a new application or an update to an existing application?
- If it is not a new application what software was used to create your existing solution?
- Will you be hosting your application?
- What information will you need to track?
- Do any users have special needs?
- Describe the ongoing needs for importing data into the system, and exporting it from the system.
- List any reports.
- Describe performance requirements, issues, and concerns.
- Describe security requirements.
This is the Charity Proposal form that you will be asked to complete on this site Located Here
If you are one of the charities that are selected, a charity analyst will contact you to work personally with you and finalize your design requirements.
Please stop in and give your support to the developers that are working hard. There are other similar events being planned that you may want to submit your Charity Proposal informatino to. See Givecamp.org for information about other such events.
As the charity representative, you are requested to be at opening and closing sessions. It is highly recommended that a charity representative attend the event, and at the minimum be available via phone to answer questions for the developers on the team.
Initially no, the proposal gives us information that will help us select charities. If your charity is selected then there will be a charity analyst assigned to you. But, please try to complete as much of the Charity Proposal as you can.
Yes! Each charity will be provided with all of the software (and books) required to maintain, update and extend their application.
There will many developers at the event, all with a wide range of skills. Please try to only submit applications that you feel could be completed in a weekend. If you are unsure if your application is small enough for a weekend project, please submit it anyway and we will let you know if it fits into the scope of a weekend.
Since the Give Camp will have such a wide range of developer talent, we will accept applications for Web work, Windows form works, mobile development and a wide range of other technologies.
Example projects:
- Establishing a web presence.
- Add a new section to your website.
- Add an online store to your website.
- Track volunteers for an upcoming event.
- Run a silent auction.
- Register visitors to your website.
A charity analyst will be in contact with you within 3 days of submitting your proposal. They will let you know if you have been selected ASAP. If you don't hear back from us within three days, feel free to email us.