Shelter Connection

Shelter Connection is a website that helps supply the homeless with any other requirements necessary to last the day by bringing together other charity organizations into one website. This website has many great features such as a list of all the charities connected through the site, a spread out calendar of different planned events, a charity of the week system, and the use of crowd rise as a fundraising tool. In using a list of charities, it helps volunteers find all of the charities in one place, providing all the needed information in a fast, convenient manner. Providing info on the cost for needed items is a smart way to push people to donate money because it shows how their donation is helping the homeless community and specifically what it's going towards. I think the calendar feature is an excellent idea because it polls all the planned events onto one page for easy access and organization. In having a calendar, people will not get flustered in finding the time and location of an event, making volunteer work far easier to plan out. The charity of the week system causes people to continually visit the website with a new, special event given to them, which leads to more website visits and more people joining certain events. It also spreads the news of new and old organizations right when someone logs onto the page. Furthermore, it can help new organizations with the suggestions options, which allows people to favorite their charity of choice, which gives more attention to that one charity. A great point was made during the presentation about having all of the correct information for the charities because a vast majority of them have not updated their websites. This is because most of these organizations do not have the time, money, or people to keep up with all of the changes on the websites. Crowd rise is another amazing part of Shelter Connection because it is a successful fundraising website . This project is a fantastic idea with great qualities and features, that if put to further use, would be deemed successful.