The purpose of this project is to provide automated support for the work of the Volunteer Services Department at San Francisco Food Bank. As the volume of work for this department increases, automating appropriate parts of their work becomes more necessary. In FY 04/05 approximately 8,000 volunteers provided 60,000 hours of service. By FY 08/09, more than 15,000 volunteers provided 100,000 hours.
There exist, in the market, various applications for scheduling and managing volunteers. Existing applications are unsatisfactory because of our unique requirements. Most volunteer scheduling applications support one volunteer making one reservation on the schedule. We need a system that supports our work with organizations that want to reserve capacity to bring groups of volunteers, while also supporting scheduling of individual volunteers and collecting information about the individuals within groups.
We are looking for vendors interested in working with us to build this web-enabled database. Our project budget is approximately $30,000. Please contact by email for further specifications.
Ben Bear Information Systems Manager San Francisco Food Bank 900 Pennsylvania Avenue San Francisco, CA 94107 bbear@sffb.org www.sffoodbank.org
