Managing non-governmental organization (NGO) operations through disconnected manual processes creates significant administrative overhead that reduces the reach and efficiency of social welfare activities. This paper presents Human Care Foundation, a Django-based web application that centralizes seven operational functions of an NGO under a single authenticated platform: user management, online donation processing, volunteer registration, help request handling, event coordination, contact management, and administrator authentication. The system is built with Python and the Django framework on the backend, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and JavaScript on the frontend, and SQLite for database management. An entity-relationship model with five core entities — Users, Donations, Volunteers, Help Requests, and Admin — governs all data interactions. The platform eliminates paperwork, enables online donations, provides real-time communication between beneficiaries and the NGO, and gives administrators a centralized dashboard to monitor all activities. This work demonstrates that a fully functional NGO management system can be built and deployed using open-source tools at zero infrastructure cost, making digital transformation accessible to resource-constrained social organizations.
Chauhan et al. (Thu,) studied this question.