DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEBBASED CHARITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

 

This research work generally summarizes the activities carried out in the design and implementation of the Web-based charity management system. This charity management is a non-profit organizational system in which non-governmental organisations and donors can come in and request and donate funds and materials such as cloths, hospital equipment, etc. These objectives are creating online payment, creating login and register page, appointment booking, allowing users to cancel appointments and even letting them go through the funding and other donation system. The project’s design was then constructed to visualize the attainment of these aims using Unified Modeling Language diagrams, Entity Relationship diagram, as well as Data Flow Diagram. In the implementation part of this project, the methodology was used for the development of this project.

Also, visual studio Professional 2015 was used as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), developed using c-sharp programming language.

Requirements were tested with best of ability using this following format of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1          Overview

As we all know charity giving is the demonstration of giving cash, products or time to the grievous, either straightforwardly or by methods for a magnanimous trust or other admirable motivation. Altruistic giving as a strict demonstration or obligation is alluded to as almsgiving or contributions. The name originates from the clearest articulation of the ideals of noble cause; giving the beneficiaries of it the methods they need to endure. The devastated, especially those bereaved or stranded, and the feeble or harmed, are for the most part viewed as the appropriate beneficiaries of good cause. The individuals who can’t uphold themselves and need outside methods for help occasionally become

“hobos”, straightforwardly requesting help from outsiders experienced openly.

 

A few gatherings see noble cause as being given towards different individuals from inside their gathering. Albeit supporting those almost associated with oneself is now and again called good cause—as in the truism “Good cause starts at home”— regularly noble cause signifies providing for those not related, with obedient devotion and like terms for supporting one’s loved ones. Surely, treating those found with the provider as though they were outsiders needing good cause has prompted the saying “as cold as noble cause” Providing for one’s family members as though they were outsiders, without fondness.

 

Most types of good cause are worried about giving necessities, for example, food, water, attire, medical services and asylum, yet different activities might be proceeded as good cause: visiting the detained or the homebound, recovering hostages, teaching vagrants, even social developments. Gifts to causes that advantage the heartbreaking in a roundabout way, for example, gifts to subsidize malignant growth research, are additionally good cause.

 

With respect to strict angles, the beneficiary of good cause may offer to petition God for the promoter. In archaic Europe, it was standard to eat the poor at the memorial service as a trade-off for their supplications for the expired. Establishments may honor promoters by showing their names, up to naming structures or even the organization itself after the sponsors. In the event that the beneficiary makes material return of in excess of a symbolic worth, the exchange is ordinarily not called good cause.

 

In the past[which?] century, numerous altruistic associations have made a “magnanimous model” in which donators provide for combinations provide for beneficiaries. Instances of this incorporate the Make a Wish Foundation (John Cena holds the title for most wishes allowed by a solitary individual, with more than 450 wishes) and the World Wildlife Fund. (Dunn and Alison, 2000) Today a few foundations have modernized, and permit individuals to give on the web, through sites, for example, JustGiving. Initially noble cause involved the promoter straightforwardly giving the merchandise to the collector. This training was proceeded by certain people, for instance, “CNN Hero” Sal Dimiceli, and administration associations, for example, the Jaycees. With the ascent of more social shared cycles, numerous foundations are moving ceaselessly from the magnanimous model and beginning to embrace this more straightforward donator to beneficiary methodology. Instances of this incorporate Global Giving (direct financing of local area improvement projects in agricultural nations) Donors Choose (for US-based activities), Pure Charity, Kiva (subsidizing credits regulated by microfinance associations in nonindustrial nations) and Zidisha (financing singular microfinance borrowers straightforwardly).

 

Organizations developed to complete the work of helping poor people, and these establishments, called good cause, give the heft of magnanimous giving today, as far as money related worth. These incorporate shelters, food banks, strict foundations committed to mind of poor people, clinics, associations that visit the homebound and detained, and numerous others. Such foundations permit those whose time or tendency doesn’t loan themselves to straightforwardly focus on the poor to empower others to do as such, both by giving cash to the work and supporting them while they accomplish the work. Establishments can likewise endeavor to all the more viably figure out the real penniless from the individuals who deceitfully guarantee good cause. Early Christians especially prescribed the consideration of the heartbreaking to the charge of the neighborhood minister. (Dunn, Alison 2000)

 

There have been assessments of who offers more to noble cause. One examination led in the United States found that as a level of pay, beneficent giving expanded as pay diminished. The least fortunate fifth of Americans, for instance, parted with 4.3% of their pay, while the most well off fifth parted with 2.1%. In total terms, this was a normal of $453 on a normal pay of $10,531, contrasted with $3,326 on a pay of $158,388 (Greve, 2009).

 

Studies have likewise discovered that “people who are strict are bound to offer cash to magnanimous associations” and they are additionally bound to give more cash than the individuals who are not strict. Among those people are individuals from American strict networks, about whom the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding led a new report with respect to humanitarian and altruistic giving. The investigation found that American Muslim gift designs with regards to beneficent giving adjust generally with other American confidence gatherings, similar to Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish people group, yet that American Muslims were bound to give out of a feeling of strict commitment and a conviction that the individuals who have should provide for the individuals who don’t. The examination additionally found that most American confidence bunches organize noble cause towards their own places of love with regards to financial gifts, and afterward different causes. Muslims and Jews offered more than other strict gatherings to social liberties security associations, while white Evangelical Christians, trailed by Protestants and afterward Catholics, were the destined to make magnanimous commitments to youth and family benefits.

(American Muslim Philanthropy by Faiqa Mahmood,2019).

 

1.2             Background and Motivation

The reason/motivation why I started this project is because of the lack of

Charity management organizations in Nigeria, that is locally meant for

Nigerians, that will reach out to those individuals that really need help from donors and NGOs or even those NGOs That need Help From Other Donors that are willing to help our dear country and don’t know how to go about it or they might even tend to give it to people to distribute and end up not reaching those that the funding was even donated for. And one other thing is that I personally know donors and have worked with a few of them and it really made me start this project because I have been getting whole lots of donation from Donors

Like the REHOBOTH foundation is a US-based Charity Organisation owned By Rev Felix Awutola and we worked with him on two different occasions 1^st he brought food and clothing materials to the internally displaced persons (IDP) during this visit we went round the IDP camp and saw a lot of people going through hardship so we decided to take their pictures and then he introduced to his colleague back in the US and they really helped with whole lots of things and funding. During that walk, we met some cripple individuals being pushed in Carts, so we took pictures of them and sent it to his colleagues. So, after some months Rev. Felix came back with wheelchairs, clothing, shoes, hospital equipment etc. and the second Donor I worked with Was KIRWA Foundation also, a US-based Agency owned by a Nigerian Mrs. Adeola Fayehun and actually invited her to come and help the internally displaced persons (IDP) and so she did in her case he donated $50,000 US dollars and some food materials, during her visit we also went around the Camp and took an analysis of the People in that camp and that got us to solve problems like taking back Children that are out of school back to the best schools we have In Borno state and during that the state Governor Heard the Work I Have been doing and commended me and asked me to continue the sky is limit and helped me with the project I was on and gave all the children I selected in that IDP Camps Scholarships. So, these are the reasons I chose this my project because it’s the first of its kind and an I am targeting to expand and bringing more donors and NGOs together.

This whole motivation is all about how I got to link donors and Individuals not NGOs and this is also what the charity management system will actually do.

 

There is no gainsaying that the charity management system is one of the key service industries in the world. In the early stage of industry development, Donors and NGOs were relatively small in scale, mostly small office either found in a mosques or church or occupying small space in an organisation. With the growing concern about one ‘s personal believe, the charity organisation has grown significantly in recent years. Large charity funding chains mushroomed alongside the emergence of a wide variety of charity organisations and technology in the world. Innovation, in an overall social setting, is

characterized as any actual article in our current circumstance (Peiss, 2008). For the motivations behind this venture, the emphasis is on a web way to deal with good cause the executives framework. The World Wide Web utilizes the Internet as a vehicle to convey data, including text, illustrations, recordings and sound to anybody with the comparing getting innovation, which today implies a bit of apparatus, or equipment and programming called an internet browser. The

Internet permits clients to surf, or investigate, the World Wide Web for data and diversion and has encouraged the improvement of another plan of action, online business. Internet business is the way toward executing business through contact made on the World Wide Web. Inside a short 14-year length, the business world including the foundation association, has seen extensive change because of web innovation; a completely new arrangement for the scattering of data and for the offer of product has developed to unexpected extents (Nguyen, 2011).

 

Web-moved toward business exchanges can be through selling or potentially publicizing products and additionally benefits, learning new aptitude, helping associations among benefactors and NGOs as well as Donors to Donors. This fast innovative move to the web approach is grasped by a few, disappoints others yet influences everybody, intentionally or subliminally. This examination was intended to investigate the web way to deal with good cause the board framework.

1.3             Statement of the Problem

Like the proverbial saying goes, Givers never Lack. Everyone wants to succeed in life, most individuals who wish to know more about the charity giving services or industry and benefits have to visit one of the charities organisations nearest to them or call on personal cell phone to book an appointment.

In the recent times, the charity organisation has been growing at a great pace with its peculiar challenges just like any other industry. The main problems faced by charity organisations as identified are as follows:

1. donors manually book appointments, and the owners of these firms write down same appointments in diary and forget most of them due to the high number of donors.
2. Overwhelming calls from donors who only wish to know more about the services and not necessarily book an appointment.

• Although, most of these charity organisations have attracted a good number of donors and NGOs, they are yet to achieve the desired number of individuals/donors as originally planned.

Therefore, the aim of this project is to mainly resolve these problems by designing a web-based system to the charity management systems in the charity organisations that includes the following features by just one click on a link:

1. A brief introduction to the charity organisation and a small profile about the organisation owners and volunteers ii. A page that includes all the services offered by the organisation. iii. Contact details. iv. “Book an appointment now” link.
2. Brief introduction to the charity funding vi. Mobile app that will enable donor to view all these services at their comfort zones and place order and book appointments.

vii.       The donors should be able to carry out due diligence of the organisations via the web

 

1.4            Aim and Objectives

The main aims and objectives of this project is to design a web-based app that helps the Donors and The NGO’s Ease their work. Specifically, the aims are to;

1. Design and integrate an automated system to improve the services and decreased the time spent calls and searching for services offered in the donation.
2. Configure a gateway system for online payment to enable individual’s ease of payment from their mobile devices.

• Design and implement users register page, login and online appointment booking.

Therefore, we propose to build a charity management system for the distribution of donations between charities, giving people the ability to notify about the surplus, and to inform about the poor who need help.

• Development of income resources (donation).
• Management and distribution of contributions to all the needy and lowincome families.
• Optimum provision and utilization of operational, physical, and human resources.
• Organization and maintenance of facilities and family’s data to allow the ease of their access.
• Speeding up the practical procedures.

Helping decision Makers in their strategic action plans

 

1.5              Significance of the Project

This project will be able to supply solutions to charity management firm’s main issues by first enabling individuals to donate online instead of calling, which is seen to be beneficial for both Donors and NGOs. Also, donors can also read about the NGOs history and the variety of services offered and the Helps they gave out all on the web. Secondly, the project will be an easier way to publicizes the Firm by simply being published on the web. By the end of this project, The Charity Organization that will adopt this web approach will hopefully be able to keep track of appointment records, cutting down the number of phone calls received and finally help achieve the desired number of donors.

Again, the aim of this project is to encourage the Charity Management system to rely mainly on technology to publicize their firm and communicate with donor/individuals. Finally, the implementation of this project will benefit academia, the Nigeria society and the world as a whole. This research adds more knowledge to the academia by providing unavailable materials to achieve and aspire in Nigeria. Also, a concise report on the implementation of each phase of this project will be developed and further development will be available.

 

1.6            Project Risks Assessment

You do hazard examination for just one explanation: Would you deal with the task contrastingly if any of your dangers occurred? I particularly search for chances that could discolor the picture of the association or keep us from conveying the framework in due date.

• Risks of getting the venture finished. (The significant highlights of the framework not finished on time above is an incredible illustration of a danger.)

 

• Risks of utilizing the framework in the field. (I discover use cases or different types of individual-situation age function admirably here.)

 

• Risks of usage. (In the event that your giver finds any issue, could their response hinder them from utilizing the framework?)

 

At that point you make arrangements to manage the dangers you never need to work out. In this task, for instance, the inadequate highlights will keep them from doing stack testing. How awful an issue is that, truly? Would

Administrator approach their information whenever they solicitation of it?

(I’m not saying this is acceptable framework, however on the off chance that Team An’s organization previously concluded that the potential drawback, the seriousness, isn’t sufficiently high, at that point there is possibly restricted business hazard if a worker isn’t accessible and the testing isn’t finished.)

 

Danger examination can’t be careful. If it was definite, you’d anticipate what’s to come. Be that as it may, having a spot to begin the conversation about what the issue is, and how it influences the venture, is greatly improved.

RISKS

Inability to carry out research due to loss of hardware/software resources	Be aware of and observe school IT security procedures. Secure Android mobile phone when not in use.
Loss of work due to equipment failure /loss	Weekly data backup to Hard drive
Software availability (Unavailability of API’s)	Alternative API’s will be checked for. Software requirements will be identified in good time for possible contentious software’s
Late delivery of hardware component	Hardware requirements will be identified in good time to be able to order them in good time

 

 

 

Risk Assessment Matrix

 

Identified Risk	Likelihood of Occurrence	Difficulty in time detection	Potential impact	Overall Risk to project
Change of system requirement by client	Medium	Medium	High	High
Developers needs to Hardware/Softw are requirements	Low	Low	Medium	Low
Exceeding Budget	Medium	Medium	Medium	High
Testing and Debugging of errors	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Incompatible Technologies	Low	Medium	medium	Medium
Integration of system module	Low	Medium	medium	medium
Failure of server	Low	Low	Low	Low
Delay in Delivery of overall system	Low	Medium	Low	Low

 

 

Risk Amendment Matrix

Identified Risk	Prevention Action	Contingenc y plan	Trigger	Owner
Change of system requirement by client	Agreement with client	Extra charge as compensati on	Unambiguous Requirements	Muhamma d T.
Developers needs to Hardware/Softw are requirements	Select the best available Hardware/Softw are components	Customizati on from NGOs	Performance of Hardware/Softw are could be degraded	Muhamma d T.
Exceeding Budget	Cost Monitoring	Request funds	Expectation to qualified deliverables	Muhamma d T.
Testing and Debugging of errors	Qualitative and competent programmers/tes ters	Outsource and reusage of components	System Complexity	Muhamma d T.
Incompatible Technologies	Use compatible technologies	Stable framework	Deliverance of high technology system	Muhamma d T.
Integration of system modules	Integration planed from early stages	Involve system testers in early stages	Improper integration plan	Muhamma d T.
Failure of server	Backup system database regularly	Keep backup server ready as standby	Congestion of traffic and/or hacking activities	Muhamma d T.
Delay in Delivery of the overall system	Set deadline	Increase working hours	Delay in deliverables	Muhamma d T.

 

SWOT Analysis

The SWOT analysis provides information that is useful to compare the student online registration system capabilities, advantage and the disadvantage compared to competitive environment in which it operates. It is an instrument in strategy formulation and selection. Risk of this project are categories as Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities.

Strengths: this will include the following

• The system shall be able to access payment gateway after donation.
• The system shall be user friendly to increase flexibility.

Weaknesses:

The system shall not be able to function if the server stops running. The server should always run when the system is loading.

Opportunities: that may include:

• Reduce cost:
• Reduce manual process.
• Save time.
• Access data in real-time.
• New organisation can be a source of funds and donations and similarly provides job opportunity for people trained by NGO.

Threats

• Prone to computer hackers because it is a web-based system.
• There is similar software are available in the software market.
• System might not be fully utilized after implementation.

 

1.7             Scope/Project Organization

The scope of this project is limited to designing and implementation of a webbased charity management system to help individuals that are in need of donors for the clients. This is a web application that will be of optimal help for individuals to make the organisation grow faster. The major functionalities were implemented, and software works perfectly. And the project organization will include;

Chapter 2 -entails the literature Review: – Historical Overview, Current Findings, Related work, Summary.

Chapter 3 – Requirements, Analysis and Design: – Overview, Requirements Specifications, Design Overview, Detailed or low-level design, Summary.

Chapter 4 – Implementation: – Overview, Main features, Major technical problems, overcoming technical problems, Testing and Summary.

Chapter 5 – Evaluation, Conclusion, and Recommendation: -Overview,

Achievements, challenges, Future enhancements, Recommendations, Summary.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEBBASED CHARITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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