We are looking 🔎 for volunteer developers to help with this effort. Please email Greg Finzer if interested.

In 2023 we are developing a national website for The Bed Brigade. Bed Brigade of Grove City, Ohio is a 501 3c registered charity. Bed Brigade builds and delivers Twin XL beds to people in need. 80% of the beds delivered serve children that do not have a bed. Several chapters of Bed Brigade opened up throughout Ohio in 2022. There is a need for a national website for all Bed Brigade Chapters to use. See the this page for more information about Bed Brigade: https://www.bedbrigadecolumbus.org/about-us

This is the current website that runs in Orchard Core: https://www.bedbrigadecolumbus.org/

The national web site is being built in Blazor Server. NET Core 7 is being used.

Overall Direction

• The Bed Brigade national website will follow the Goodwill model where users will search a bed brigade near me by entering in a zip code
• Each location of Bed Brigade will manage their home page, bed requests, volunteers, stories, news, users, and assembly instructions
• The styling of the header and footer will be minimal so that each Bed Brigade location can have their own colors.

Business Pain

• Currently the only Bed Brigade location that has a website is Grove City. All other locations are using either Facebook or an email address and phone number. This is not optimal as everything is a manual process for handling volunteers, Bed Requests, scheduling, donations and contacts.
• The current Orchard Core CMS is too complicated to use.
• The current volunteer page is sub optimal as it allows people to volunteer on days where there is no cut, build, or delivery happening.
• There is no scheduling system which results in a out order of delivery schedule.
• No tax forms are sent for donations.
• There is currently no bulk email for: emailing all volunteers, emailing just delivery vehicle volunteers, emailing volunteer reminders, emailing bed request contacts, emailing delivery teams, performing followup, and performing announcements.

Current Website running in Orchard CMS: https://www.bedbrigadecolumbus.org/

• Architecture
• Getting Started
• Entity Framework
• Estimates
• Implementation Plan
• Project Plan
• References
• Roles
• Slack Workspace used for project communication
• Trello Board used for Kanban