Case Study: Nederland Cares accelerates volunteer engagement with Heroku

Nederland Cares App Uses Heroku, Heroku Connect, and Salesforce to Accelerate Volunteer Engagement

Nederland Cares is a Dutch nonprofit that connects busy young professionals and corporate teams with short-term, city-specific volunteer opportunities. Facing an inefficient, manual legacy system, the organization needed a simple, fast front end for volunteers and a powerful CRM back end to manage activities, signups and corporate partnerships.

Development partner Gen25 built a Heroku-hosted Django web app that uses Heroku Connect to sync real-time volunteer data with a Force.com/Salesforce CRM, backed by Heroku Postgres and supporting add-ons for monitoring, backups and security. The result: seamless real-time recruitment, better volunteer insights and campaign management, no more performance bottlenecks—last year volunteers contributed 44,000 hours across 1,300 activities and 500 organizations.

Nederland Cares

Gepke van de Laar

Financial Director, Nederland Cares