We designed a web application for Beating Myeloma, an existing proVanceTek client, that allowed them to manage their walkathon event that was a cross between the well known Race for the Cure and the St. Jude Up 'til Dawn "50 Names Fast" program.
The Second Annual Galen Foundation Walk the Walk, Talk the Talkathon took place Saturday, June 21st, 2008 from 10am to noon at the University Upper School track.
If over a hundred pledges, resulting in nearly $12,000 in donations isn't proof enough of the event's success, check out their event video on the Beating Myeloma website. Last couple years, David Emerson, founder of Beating Myeloma and the Galen Foundation, walked by himself, accepting donations from friends and family, and raised about three grand. This year, he expanded operations to include other walkers and reaped the reward of more donations than ever.
Because their existing website is maintained in Drupal, we designed our web application around the CMS so it would be transparent to the end user - they wouldn't need to log into a separate website. We utilized existing Drupal modules that did things that were similar to what we needed and modified them where necessary.
The web application served a number of functionalities. It included a hierarchical role structure for various roles (staff and volunteers) to accomplish various tasks. It included a system that would allow the staff to invite individuals via email to become volunteers and automatically promote their role appropriately once they accepted the invitation. It also allowed staff and volunteers to send email invitations to potential sponsors (donors). It provided the ability to keep track of sponsorship pledges and donations that had been made. It also provided the ability to send out automated emails and mass contact emails to a variety of categorized mailing lists based on role, payment status, etc. It also included other features such as a fundraising thermometer and a display ticker of names of recent pledges. As you can tell, it needed to be feature rich.
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