BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Technical Field

This invention relates generally to a charitable volunteer system, and more particularly to a volunteer reporting system for providing reporting and aggregation of volunteer time and location of service on behalf of an organization or the like.

State of the Art

Organizations and individuals have no system that allows for easy tracking and reporting of volunteer hours, location and time at the organization in a volunteer capacity. Organizations historically have various ways of collecting such information. For example, one way is to have a sign in sheet for individuals to sign and indicate that he or she is volunteering. This system has significant drawbacks, such as a lack of accounting for all time at the location the individual is supposed to be at for the volunteered amount of time. Conventional systems are required to utilize ineffective and inaccurate forms of accounting of volunteer hours of service. With the wide adoption of smart devices utilized by volunteers a new system is needed to recognize the hours and commitment of their individual volunteers or group of volunteers.

Accordingly, there is a need for an improved system for collecting volunteer hours.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a volunteer reporting system that verifies a volunteer's location to perform charity work, time that the volunteer is performing charity work, cumulative hours of charity work for a predetermined period of time and generates reports regarding the same.

A volunteer reporting system is disclosed comprising: a computer server having a memory storing organization data of an organization and user data of a user; and a user computing device of the user coupled to the computer server, the computer server programmed to: generate and establish a proximity zone at a specified geo-location; receive a first signal from the user computing device that the user computing device has entered the proximity zone and store in the memory of the server a time and date the user computing device entered the proximity zone; automatically establish a connection between the server and the user computing device in response to the user computing device entering the proximity zone; automatically generate and send for display on the user computing device a volunteer interface that includes a message indicating the user computing device has entered the proximity zone; automatically determine an accumulated amount of time the user computing device has been within the proximity zone during a designated period of time less the time the user computing device is outside of the proximity zone until within the proximity zone and sensed and the server receives a second signal during the designated period of time; and generate a report of the location, time and accumulated amount of time the user computing device is within the proximity zone in response to receiving a request for the report.

The report may be requested by the organization. The user data may be reported to the server and retrieved by the organization with user permission. The organization may be a charitable organization. The user computing device may comprise a timer thereby allowing the user to manually start and stop the timer within the proximity zone. The user computing device may comprise a camera for authenticating the user is within the proximity zone. The organization data may comprise verification information that the organization is registered with the system. The user data may comprise name and contact information of the user. The contact information may comprise address, email and/or phone number. The volunteer reporting system may comprise more than one of the user computing device. The organization may track how many of the more than one user computing device are within the proximity zone. The user may be affiliated with a group or team. The computer server may automatically send verification to the user computing device in response to the user computing device entering the proximity zone that the organization is legitimate.

The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following more detailed description of the particular embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

