Address:
Villa Grand-Montfleury
48, Chemin du Grand-Montfleury
1290 Versoix
Geneva, Switzerland
References of NGO/Non-Profit Status:
Pleaser refer to the Memorandum of Association adopted 28th May 2008 in Switzerland. Shelter Centre is registered in as an International NGO in the database of the "Cancillerie d'Etat de la Republique et canton de Geneve"
About your organization:
Shelter Centre is registered in Switzerland as a not-for-profit limited company.
Shelter Centre is co-directed and co-founded by Tom Corsellis, who co-founded the informal University of Cambridge shelterproject group, and Antonella Vitale, who worked with shelterproject to develop the 'Transitional Settlement - Displaced Populations' guidelines published by Oxfam Publishing in May 2005.
The work of Shelter Centre has been supported by volunteers from humanitarian initiatives associated with the University of Cambridge, including Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB-UK) and Architectes Sans Frontières UK (ASF-UK).
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Your organization principles:
Shelter Centre is an NGO supporting communities impacted by conflicts and natural disasters by serving collaboration and consensus in humanitarian transitional settlement and reconstruction response.
Links to any existing web sites operated by the NGO:
http://www.sheltercentre.org, in development a Drupal site: http://qa.sheltercentre.krimson.be
Staff involved in web activities:
Main tools / technologies you currently use:
PHP wiki (old website) and Drupal (for new website).
Main tasks of your web team:
Site architecture and content management
Your project in a few words:
We are migrating to Drupal. We are developing a new Drupal platform with tons of features that is not user-friendly.
The website was designed by Development Seed, one of the leading Shops for drupal based in Washington DC.
It is being finalized by Krimson, in Belgium, nevertheless the website is far from finished.... and the money is over.
This could be a showcase for the drupal community of what can be done!!!
Take it an improve it!! it would be the best showcase for you!
Geolocation via IP of members, Intranet community, yahoo pipes with geocatching for news, faceted search for the library.... a Rolls Royce... but not user friendly at all....
Your project objectives:
With not enough money to finish the project (migration to Drupal) our new website is far from perfect. User friendliness should be improved and new components integrated (registration to meetings online and CRM integration).
Once this is done, create a vanilla version with all of it and put it for the Drupal community as "the drupal website" pack for NGOs. We have invested a lot and it will be for the community.
Success factors:
We are very happy with Drupal. We are not live yet because it is not finished. Development can be seen at: http://qa.sheltercentre.krimson.be
As it is, the website is not good enough. User friendliness is not reaching the minimum levels. Also some further development with event participation and management of event members.
Value factors:
Our NGO is small. The web is the main pilar of our Organisation. We aim at being the platform for the humanitarian shelter sector, and put it out for the community in a vanilla version.
