Finding and helping a local nonprofit for geeks and others
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Finding and Helping a Local Nonprofit
For Geeks And others
Tech Support
Tools Developer
Garbage Stomper
Child Distracter
It’s Kind Of Awesome
Small Non-Profits
• Homeless shelters• Food banks• Community outreach programs• Animal rescue• Home care assistance
They Need Everything
• Money• Supplies• Extra hands• Dependable tech support• Custom software tools
Like Startups
• Big ambitions• Tiny budgets• Creative solutions• You can help
Finding Them
• Hang out?• Dedicated Search Engines• Employer Volunteer Programs• Search as if
Dedicated Search Engines
• idealist.org• volunteermatch.org• flashvolunteer.org• craigslist.org
Employer Volunteer Programs
• www.google.org• www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship• www.amazon.com/b?id=UTF8&node=13786411
Search As If
• What if you needed it?• BTW – post it
No Code!
Every Org Is Different
• Legal requirements• Communities served• Mission philosophies
Learn How They Do Things
Don’t Disrupt!
• If it’s too different they won’t use it• Focus on one thing that makes you itch
Incentive Point Store+1,000 points -1,000 points
(I made up these points. No idea how much they really would have been.)
What They Had
A Small Idea
• Excel worksheet with macros• See if they use it
The Web App• 78,000 Entries• 3,800 Client Members• Three Locations
Tax Time?
• “But the points are make believe!”• Points are exchanged for goods.• Therefore points have tax value.• “Worst pretend store ever.”
What’s In It For Me?
• Fun code• Only fish in a small pond• Immediate feedback• Plain old fun
Go Have Fun!