Oscar Sanchez CSC 412 Tech Intern Fall 2010

What is SAVE Dade? SAVE Dade is recognized as Miami-Dade County’s leading organization dedicated to protecting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) against discrimination. Since 1993, SAVE Dade has been advocating for equal rights for persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities. We accomplish this through grassroots action focused on: O Political Advocacy – working to promote local, state, and federal policy change by building community consensus; O Community Outreach – changing hearts and minds by educating the people of Miami-Dade County about LGBT issues; and O Candidate Endorsements – supporting political leaders committed to ending LGBT discrimination.

My Tasks O I was hired to create a new website and maintain data for the SAVE Dade organization. This included redesigning the website, adding user connectivity, and allowing for a more efficient method of organizing data. O I focused primarily on user setup, and the “look” of the site.

Purpose O SAVE Dade has suffered from unnecessary spending when creating reports and when processing payments. They also had unorganized data for their old website. They needed a change.

Technologies O SAVE Dade does not run its own server. This led to many initial problems which took a couple of weeks to resolve. O Drupal – CMS engine O CiviCRM – A client for customer relations O MySQL (with innoDB) – Database Engine O Apache 2.0+ – Web Server O … lots of PHP and more

Drupal O Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It allows us to easily handle user registration and edit it to fit SAVE Dade’s needs.

CiviCRM O CiviCrm is a Consituent Relationship Management system. It is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

CiviContribute O This is CiviCRM’s handler for processing donations and other forms of money handling. CiviEvents O I’ve combined CiviCRM’s event lists with a calendar module to make it easy to find events and register for things that one would like to sign up for, such as volunteering to phone bank, poll, or attend a fundraiser.

CiviMail O Setting up cron jobs to send mail blasts CiviReport O CiviCRM’s method of report managing, with many options available to keep track of pledges, volunteers, costituents, etc.

The Future O I will have submitted an easily-configurable template and the site will definitely change in the years and will be accessible to more modules.

Thank you Questions?