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NGOs (Non Government Organisations) play an important role in the world. Team Web Design Creative understand the importance of such organizations. We were approached by a Upakar Foundation to enhance their website. Upakar helps Indian-American students realize their educational goals. They provide annual scholarships that acknowledge academic excellence and consider financial need.

The goals of Upakar website:

• Communicate the importance of why Upakar exists and why it needs support from donors and volunteers
• Attract potential scholars and create a user-friendly system for processing applications online
• Attract potential donors (individuals and companies) and create a user-friendly system for processing online donations
• Profile current and past scholars
• Acknowledge the support of donors, board members and volunteers
• Communicate latest updates on Upakar’s activities (e.g., events, partnerships, board updates, annual reports, statistics on Indian-American students, etc.)
• Optimize the public’s ability to find the Upakar site through Internet searches and through links to partner organizations
• Store financial information, scholar applications, scholar information, and other data as requested, in a back-end database. The web-enabled database should have keyword search functionality and the ability to export and import data, produce clear reports based on selected data items.

Upakar was looking to overhaul its current website to make it more user-friendly and engaging. They wanted it to be simple, functional, and attractive but not too jazzy, flashy or fussy.

We decided to do provide this solution using Joomla. As the website needed to be customizable and business requirements. We believe Joomla CMS solution is user-friendly so the client can regularly update the content with a simple backend editor.

The overall work is divided into two phases and we have worked on phase 1 so far.

Phase 1 which covers:

• Customized User Interface Design.
• Online donation functionality using Paypal
• Editable content pages
• Newsletter design & implementation

Phase 2 will cover:

• Blog section with custom theme template.
• Events section automation
• Search Engine Optimization
• Apply online for Scholarship system
• Dynamic news & media section