Taya-kilos volunteer management system

• Main Authors: Go, Shaun Christopher, Moral, Mary Maragarette, Samson, Justin Johnvin, Villegas, Michael Ian, Ulit, Estefanie D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Volunteers; Special events—Management; Management information systems; Civic and Community Engagement
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12619
• Institution: De La Salle University

Community Engagement is not only beneficial for the community itself but also for the people who spend their time and effort as well for the betterment of the community. Technology plays a big role in volunteering efforts today. Fast response time of volunteers is needed nowadays. Through the use of the internet, organizations now are enabled to be able to recruit and respond to different causes in less than 48 hours. Available volunteer programs can now be disseminated and accessed over the web specifically through the use of social media (VolunteerHoward, 2011). This capstone project focused on the concept of social awareness, collaboration, volunteerism, events management and most importantly volunteer management. It is a study on volunteer management to help foundations and centers gather enough volunteers for their volunteering opportunities by thinking about how to motivate possible volunteers to join and how to take care of them when they do. The test bed for this study is the De La Salle University-Manila-Center. The proposed project of the team is a volunteer management system, which will help in handling the information about volunteers and volunteering opportunities. It is aimed to serve the Lasallian community, which includes its students, employees, alumni and most importantly the COSCA staff. The study aims to develop a Volunteer Management System for De La Salle University-Center for Social Concern and Action (COSCA). The methodology used by the group in developing the project is rapid application development wherein the group is working in collaboration with COSCA in doing the system for the said organization and is scheduled to be developed within less than a year.