Volunteer Projects Management

Goal

The task for the Axmor team was to develop a software solution with front-end and back-end components to search for volunteers and manage volunteer projects. The software solution had to include the following functions: separate interfaces for volunteers and coordinators, volunteer registration, applicant background check (including legal and medical), task assignment, time tracking and reporting system.

Solution

Organizations running volunteer activities and programs enter into cooperation with Samaritan Technologies. The dedicated interface is provided for volunteers and coordinators on the client’s website. Volunteers are registered, participate in surveys, and report on their activities. Coordinators check the applicant’s background, assign programs, manage schedules, generate automated e-mail notifications and conduct reports analysis. The websites front-end and back-end is configured based on the project functions and the customer’s requirements.

Platform to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

During COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic the Samaritan Technologies volunteer management system is widely used to organize, coordinate, and plan the work of professional medical personnel as well as to direct volunteer teams to the places that need reinforcements the most, protecting millions of people.

Samaritan Technologies CEO, Bruce Behymer, says: "In response to the outbreak of coronavirus, one of our clients, a San Francisco Bay area hospital, quickly reduced all non-emergency operations and contacted their human resources department to help them reassign specialists to new posts oriented toward the pandemic. The urgency of meeting new challenges, creating new roles, scheduling, and task tracking was overwhelming. Their existing internal software, that focused primarily on wages and benefits accrual, did not meet the new requirements."

One of their volunteer coordinators pointed the hospital's attention to the platform already used to coordinate their thousands of volunteers - the volunteer recruitment and coordination software products from Samaritan Technologies. "We already have a platform that can meet this need”, the coordinator said, “It’s what we do with our volunteers all the time. I know somebody, who can put together a system for organizing and filling our professional reassignment needs, just like they do for our volunteers.” Adjusted to the hospital's requirements, the same platform could be used to organize medical professional reassignment to battle COVID-19.

"The hospital called us. Within 72 hours, they had a working web-based staff scheduling system, compliant with HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)", continued Behymer. Hospital staff responsible for personnel coordination and transfers expressed their feedback to Samaritan after having used the platform: "I am so impressed with your team. It’s amazing! The platform is so intuitive and efficient. We will probably want to keep using it … even after the crisis is over", - commented the person in charge of the staff reassignment.

Axmor’s programmers are the core team behind the development of the Samaritan volunteer management system. Over the past several weeks, our team stayed in touch with Samaritan 24/7, always ready to quickly implement new features to prepare the system for new challenges.