RFP: Database for National Tutoring & Mentoring Organization
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The Organization is designing a National Program Database (NPD) to help local affiliates manage their daily program operations and aggregate information about members and students across the country. We are excited to build a program management system that can help sites track the many activities they perform every day in our schools. And nationally, we look forward to building a dataset that will help us better understand the factors that drive student achievement and member effectiveness-providing evidence that informs service delivery improvements and creates compelling material for marketing efforts.
Our goals with the NPD are to:
* Develop a database for affiliates to manage the daily operations of their program, including member recruitment, student management, member placement with teachers and students, and the daily activities performed by members.
- If desired, affiliates may use their own separate program management system instead, in which case the NPD should facilitate easy importing and exporting of data with other systems.
* Create a system that allows national research staff to analyze data about members and students at each affiliate, which will ultimately help provide better data and support to local programs.
* Build a data structure that allows the national program to compare program operations across cities. This means that the NPD should be:
- A tool that requires affiliates to collect a core set of data elements that are the same at all sites.
- A tool that allows each affiliate to add their own data elements beyond the national standards, customizing the application to meet their local needs.
* Try to minimize the data entry burden on affiliates while still achieving the other objectives listed here. The ideal NPD will have an intuitive interface and integrate with the AmeriCorps eGrants system.
* Ensure the data in the NPD is as up-to-date and accurate as possible. We want the capacity to collect data real-time, although we recognize that this may not be feasible for all affiliates.
Request for Proposals
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More detail about our requirements, selection criteria, and timeline is available at http://www.experiencecorps.org/assets/National_Program_Database_RFP.pdf
Please send all proposals or inquiries to [email protected] by August 10, 2010 at 5pm EDT.
