CTC VISTA Project Application and Reporting System

Organization: The Community Technology Center's AmeriCorps VISTA Project (recently rebranded the Transmission Project). The CTC VISTA Project places AmeriCorps VISTA members in community media and technology centers across the country to help bridge the digital divide.

Challenge: 1) Streamline the application process for non-profit organizations that wish to host AmeriCorps VISTAs. 2) Facilitate and centralize the periodic reports that VISTAs and their supervisors compiled.

Solution: I built the organization application and reporting system backend using PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS—including AJAX. The system enables organizations to create and track multiple applications and reports, submit their applications and reports electronically to the Project, and download PDFs of any application or report.

Developers: Paul Hansen (designer), Saul Baizman (web programmer, database designer).

Awards/honors: Grassroot.org's Techie Award for "pioneering contributions in nonprofit online applications development," April 2007.

The CTC VISTA Project application and reporting system.