Notes from Ray’s Desk: GIVE-API V2.0, and a Sneak Peek at Motif Giving

Every month, Ray Stockford, Systems Administrator for Place2Give shares the latest tech updates on the Place2Give website and technology solutions offered through Dexterity.

The GIVE-API has been released and the following features are currently available:

• Basic (keyword) + Advanced (charity size, charity type) search functions
• Detailed charity information: from contact info to operating budgets to volunteer turn-over rates, numerous information points are available.
• Charity financial data: Revenue, expenses, profit / loss ratio, liquidity, long term investments
• Charity Project data: Project details, expenses, volunteer hours, salary cost, material cost
• Access to Credit Card donation portal: USD + CAD options

Keep checking back to this blog because we are still working to implement these features:

• Access to PayPal donation portal: USD + CAD options
• Charity File details: Allows access to files the charity has uploaded to the database
• Charity Salaries: Query the database for charity salary info.
• Log Favourites: Allows the API client to tag charities as a favourite for the donor
• GAIN response: Allows a means for Place2Give to post a response to the API client’s system regarding donation attempts. 
• Utility methods: various methods to retrieve field values for making other API method calls (ie. Prov/state lookup)

Right now our top implementation priority is allowing access to the PayPal portal, but we are working hard on the rest of the updates as well.

Our Tech Team is doing great:

Congratulations go to Rama Gilaka, our Data Architect/Analyst, for completing her MIT course, Tackling the Challenges of Big Data!

Kudos also go to Riad Al Jomai, one of our U of C students, as his team (TRAK) was amongst the top 15 teams competing at the Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) hackathon this year!!  Nice work!

Welcome to our new team member, Alex Choi as CTO.  Alex brings a large amount of development management experience to the team and has already streamlined much of our process.