About This Project
After working with nonprofits in Nepal, India, Cambodia and Ethiopia, founder Trish Perkins recognized a need for mobile field surveys that sync with Salesforce. After perusing the market, she realized that none of the paid solutions were affordable for her clients. She set out to assemble a team of developers and others interested in making this service available not only to her clients, but to others in the nonprofit community.
The Grassroots Mobile Survey App team believes that mobile technology is critically important for meeting the missions of many nonprofits worldwide. These nonprofits must have staff in the field to bring their services to those in need who are unable to come to a central office. In the case of service-based organizations, the nonprofit's constituents are often better served in their home environments. In the case of emergencies and disasters, the constituents must be served in the field.
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- 2015 - Pilot project for social service charity Hayden Hall was begun with health workers filling out paper forms and those forms being manually entered into Salesforce. This project was the inspiration for the Grassroots Mobile Survey app.
- 2017 - Salesforce developer Luis Campos-Guajardo created a proof of concept for the project.
- 2018 - MTX, a Salesforce consulting company in India, made the Hayden Hall project its Corporate Social Responsibility project for the year and developed the first prototype.
- 2019 - The first twelve mobile phones with the app installed were distributed to beta testers across the Himalayan region near Darjeeling
- 2020-2022 - The team began work on the next phase of the project with the goal of making it available across the nonprofit Salesforce sector.
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- Trish Perkins (coordinator)
- Bhim Raj Manali (testing and declarative developer)
- Shun Kosaka (developer)
- Dar Veverka (project manager)
- Jung Mun (developer)
- Andy Engin Utkan (testing and declarative developer)
- John Castelloe
- Rich Nevin
- Deanne Walters
- Casey Hart
- Karen Fitton
- Priya Rizal
- Michael Kolodner
- Richardson Handjaja
- Panupong Pichedwattana
- TJ Garza
- Jeremiah Olafisoye
- Badr Laabad
- TJ Warfield
- Melissa Hill Dees
- Hima Bindu Moka
- Lena Elsea
- Sena Günay
- Fesobi Saliu
- Lynda En
- Nicholas Rustigan
- James Daniel
- Gail McCall
- Luis Campos-Guajardo
- Gaurav Kheterpal
- Umangshu Chouhan
- Anmol Mathur
GRMS Field Team at Hayden Hall, Darjeeling, India