- Client: Envato Market
- Date: April 2023
- Project Type: Mobile App
Volunteer Collaboration & Nonprofit Management Platform
A mobile-first volunteer collaboration platform that helps individuals and teams discover opportunities to give back, while empowering organizations to manage and track community impact.
How it works
For Volunteers:
Create & Manage Profiles – Update personal details, profile picture, contact info, and preferences.
Activity Tracking – Log volunteer hours, shifts, causes, and history of contributions.
Discover Opportunities – Search organizations by location, cause type, or postal code.
Engagement – Connect with organizations, track reports, and view impact metrics.
For Organizations:
Admin Dashboard – Centralized view of volunteers, activities, and reports.
Analytics & Insights – Track top volunteers, hours by cause/location, volunteer hour value, and promotions.
Advanced Reporting – Dynamic tables with filtering, search, pagination, export to CSV, and custom report generation.
User Management – Bulk import/export, invite users, manage volunteer groups.
Location & Project Management – Oversee activities, requests, and nonprofit inventories.
Customization – Update landing page content, branding, and organization details.
Our Contributions
Designed & developed the mobile app and organizational dashboards from scratch.
Implemented multi-tenant architecture, ensuring scalability for multiple organizations.
Integrated SAML & SSO authentication for secure enterprise-level access.
Built advanced reporting and analytics modules with dynamic filtering and exports.
Designed volunteer engagement flows (signups, shifts, logs, impact reports).
Delivered a modern, accessible UI/UX for both volunteers and admin teams.
Tech Stack
Frontend (Mobile): React Native
Frontend (Admin Dashboard): React.js
Backend: Node.js, Express
Database: MongoDB (with tenant-based separation)
Authentication: SAML, Single Sign-On (SSO), JWT
Cloud Services: AWS (S3, Lambda, CloudWatch)
Reports & Analytics: Custom reporting engine with CSV export
Causer is a comprehensive volunteer collaboration platform built to bridge the gap between volunteers and organizations in need of support. The platform empowers individual volunteers and teams to discover meaningful opportunities while providing nonprofit organizations with powerful tools to manage, track, and report volunteer activities.
Designed as a multi-tenant, enterprise-ready application, Causer ensures a seamless experience for both sides of the ecosystem — enabling volunteers to contribute effectively and organizations to maximize community impact with real-time insights.
Case Studies
Problem: Nonprofits and organizations often face challenges in managing volunteers, tracking hours, and reporting impact. At the same time, volunteers struggle to find opportunities that align with their interests and availability.
Solution: Causer was built as an end-to-end collaboration ecosystem, giving volunteers a simple way to engage with causes while providing organizations with a robust admin dashboard for analytics, reporting, and community impact measurement.
Impact:
Increased volunteer engagement through streamlined discovery & participation workflows.
Gave organizations the ability to track and optimize community impact in real-time.
Simplified reporting for compliance and stakeholder presentations, reducing admin overhead.
Challenges & How We Solved
Challenge: Multi-Tenant Data Separation – Needed to handle multiple organizations with isolated yet scalable data.
Solution: Designed a multi-tenant architecture with strict data partitioning and role-based access controls.Challenge: Complex Reporting Needs – Organizations required highly customizable reports.
Solution: Built dynamic reporting modules with filtering, CSV export, and column visibility controls.Challenge: Secure Authentication – Nonprofits required enterprise-level login systems.
Solution: Integrated SAML & SSO authentication for streamlined and secure access.
Key Outcomes
Delivered a multi-tenant volunteer management platform ready for global nonprofits.
Enabled organizations to reduce manual reporting time by 60%.
Empowered volunteers to log, track, and showcase their contributions easily.
Strengthened nonprofit transparency with data-driven insights into community impact.
your project into a success story.