Join The Shop: Code for Cville's Pro Bono Tech Consulting Workshop

Join us for the Summer session of The Shop!

The Shop is a pro bono IT consulting and problem-solving service for nonprofit organizations in Charlottesville and Central Virginia. We assign small teams of volunteers to work directly with someone at a nonprofit to solve a specific issue with tech, data, or web design.

Our goal during this event is to tell you about four new projects we are taking on and to form teams to work on these projects over the next several weeks.

The four new projects are:

1. Start a Spark: this organization supplies firewood to those in need during the winters with the help of many volunteers through their Charity Wood splitting events. We will be building a website for this organization to help them schedule volunteers, collect donations, and show safety videos.

2. Infinity Acres Ranch: they provide Animal Assisted Learning with therapeutic educational and interactive opportunities to individuals utilizing domestic and exotic animals to encourage physical, emotional and psychological well-being while promoting stewardship, social responsibility plus animal knowledge and conservation within our community. We will help them develop an online reservation system to book Animal Encounter Reservations with online payment through square.

3. Charlottesville Community Bikes: a non-profit bicycle shop that promotes environmentally sound transportation, recycles bicycles, and makes cycling accessible to all in Charlottesville. We will help CCB to streamline data collection and integrations between systems, improve their donor to customer tracking process, and promote their shop's inventory.

4. United by Chocolate: translates educational material and videos to empower cacao and chocolate farmers in various parts of the world, but with a focus on Peru. We will be helping them to develop their website by hosting pre-recorded, translated videos on their website.

These projects are under the umbrella of The Shop because our goal is to draw on experience to complete projects more quickly and more successfully. We learn about the common roadblocks that nonprofits face and we want to share our knowledge about what’s worked to get past these blocks for other organizations. We are also build a library of templates for webpages, databases, and other tech systems that meet modern standards for accessibility. Templates make future projects easier, and we build templates that are ADA accessible and easily translatable to other languages.