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San Francisco unveils HelpBayArea portal to register volunteers and 32,000 employees

San Francisco Disaster Council · October 12, 2007
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City officials demonstrated helpbayarea.org, a regional volunteer and employee management system that can register volunteers now and will integrate roughly 32,000 San Francisco city and county employees for emergency deployments, rostering and mass notifications.

San Francisco officials demonstrated a new regional volunteer and employee management system, helpbayarea.org, telling the Disaster Council the portal is live for volunteers and will soon be populated with city employee data to speed emergency response.

William Bass, the presenter for the Disaster Service Worker program, showed the live training site and said volunteers could "register right now." He described the system as a searchable regional "portal for our regional employee and volunteer management system," with roughly 150 specialized search fields for skills, languages and credentials. Bass said the system will let staff create missions, deploy personnel and generate rosters…

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