Project Overview
We would like an expert volunteer to scope and deliver an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to supercharge our operations and unite our financials, CRM, HR, and school management.
We currently use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint under nonprofit licenses, QuickBooks for our financials, and loose-leaf Excel spreadsheets for our HR, school MIS, and impact monitoring. We need a business or ERP system that unites all these functions. It's critical that the identified solution can operate within our organization's budgetary constraints. This will most likely be within Dynamics 365.
Deliverables include:
1. Scoping options for a business system that can integrate our financials, CRM, impact monitoring, HR, and school management.
2. Building and customising a system (probably using Dynamics 365, but we are very open to guidance).
3. Launching and training at least 2 members of Alsama staff on the system
Alsama is an NGO that runs 4 schools for 880 Syrian refugee teenagers living in Beirut. We take illiterate 12-year-olds and turn them into University-ready 18-year-olds. If you’ve got 3 minutes, check out tinyurl.com/alsama-short. You’ll thank me.
We're scaling - fast. Opening a new school within Lebanon every year until we reach 2,000 students, and putting together a franchising strategy to reach 10,000 refugee students in ~5 years. Our education model works: we overcome illiteracy in <5 months, and our top students are 18 months away from applying to University.
We have reached a critical juncture. Our systems are no longer capable of facilitating our scaling. We have outgrown excel and we need an ERP that unites our finance, CRM, HR, and school management. And we need help. Your systems expertise could become invaluable in supercharging our operations and enabling our scale-up phase. If you have the time and energy to donate your skills to us, I would love to talk.Alsama currently uses QuickBooks for financials, SharePoint for file storage, and loose-leaf Excel files for all its HR, student management, impact monitoring, etc. We have clear briefs for what a student MIS needs to handle. Our CRM/financials/HR briefs are relatively standard, and can probably be delivered without customisation.
Nonprofit Overview
Alsama runs education centres, sports hubs, and social enterprises for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Typically, refugee children are left behind by the educational system. They miss years of schooling, and there’s simply no way for them to “catch up”.
Our cutting edge curriculum condenses the traditional 12-year education into just 6 years. Allowing our students to stay on track with the trajectory every teenager deserves: one towards their personal goals, dreams and aspirations.
It’s not just about education. It’s about instilling our students with a sense of purpose and self-worth as they work towards realising their aspirations.