Development of Global Philanthropy Platform (Minimal Viable Product)

Project Description

We are seeking proposals to engage the services of a development team able to develop and deploy a unique global online philanthropic venture (“the Vehicle”). This platform is to be built using a popular web development framwork--such as Rails, Django and NodeJS.

The Platform

A "pass-through" Vehicle that leverages the latest technology with best-in-class accountability and transparency practices to unleash the catalytic potential of Philanthropy giving donors an unprecedented choice to direct funds strategically and effectively towards the world’s major humanitarian and developmental challenges.

The Vehicle intends to improve and facilitate impact-driven bespoke reporting, with healthy competition for receipt of funds driving organisations to improve governance and the quality of impact reporting. This will in-turn stimulate and encourage further donations through the Vehicle.

The platform will ultimately utilise Big Data to pull information from multiple sources and generate Automatic Reports for the donors as well as the recipient agencies. It will also have advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and smart algorithms to perform the following:

• Analyse data to showcase humanitarian needs based on humanitarian and development aid agencies input, which would feed-in and update the humanitarian priorities section on the platform in real time.
• Analyse and display trends to make it easy for donors to identify causes and beneficiaries of choice.
• Showcase the impact of the mass micro-donations of the retail donors.
• Generate reports on donor trends, which will assist beneficiary agencies to position their appeals based on donor interests and requirements.
• Provide real-time and balanced exposure to all humanitarian needs around the world, enabling donors to make informed decisions on most pressing issues and needs.

Scope of This Effort

For this current project, we are seeking to establish a strong technical basis in the form of a "minimal viable product" (MVP) which will allow us to demonstrate the core capabilities of the system to manage both donors and charities, to accept donations for subsequent distribution, and to perform basic reporting functionality. If this MVP is successful then subsequent projects will focus on incorporating more advanced capabilities as described above. 

We have developed a set of reference user experiences and use cases as well as a system architecture for the ultimate system (see the attached documents) but expect that the developer will work with the sponsors to adapt this design as appropriate to ensure that we meet our very tight schedules. Our emphasis for this project is to develop and deploy a fieldable system, knowing that we will incorporate additional functionality as we grow.  Subsequent projects will focus on the analytics and machine learning aspects of the project.

At a high level, this project will result in a system which accomplishes the following:

• A browser based desktop application able to support donors, charities and the platform administrators 
• Secure user management capabilities for donors, charities and platform administrators
• A content management capability for representing the charities and associated projects 
• An integrated payment system able to accept and track donations
• An appropriate business intelligence tool for providing reports to both the charities as well as the platform manager. This visualization and querying tool could be constructed using with existing tools (e.g. Tableau), through the AWS hosted system, QuickSite, or perhaps using an approach based upon custom development, e.g. D3.
• The architecture will be designed to leverage Amazon Web Services as appropriate.
• A successful completion of this project will result in a system that has been deployed on AWS 

More details are provided in the accompanying requirements document, however, to reiterate we do not intend to construct the entire system described in this document under the project being staffed through this RFP. 

PLEASE NOTE: the results of this development MUST be completed and deployed by April 15, 2018

Proposal Requirements

In your proposal, please provide:

• Previous work that you have done that is relevant (please include URLs of live systems and not of your profile on other marketplaces);
• How you would approach this development exercise; 
• Proposed milestones;
• Estimated hours and budget.

You can look at the two attached documents and propose which features you can deliver by the April 15 deadline for the MVP.  Proposals that do not address the above requirements will not be considered.