WRK//0032026

Martha's Mission.

Client work for a North Carolina food pantry: volunteer training with graded quizzes, an admin compliance dashboard, and their paper supplier order form digitized.

ROLE

Consultant, full build

STATUS

Delivered, deployment-ready

FOR

Pantry volunteers, staff, and board

YEAR

2026

The problem.

Martha's Mission Cupboard is a food pantry that receives from the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. New volunteers trained from a paper binder, and completion tracking meant asking around. The board needed proof that training happened.

The budget was a nonprofit budget and the users range from teenagers to retirees on tablets. Whatever I shipped had to be simple, sturdy, and cheap to run.

What I built.

A training flow that mirrors the pantry's physical stations, five sections with a short quiz gating each one. No accounts and no passwords for volunteers: name, email, phone, and you are in.
Grading is server-authoritative. The answer key lives only on the server, and volunteers who fail a section get their score but not the answers, so a retake means actually re-reading the material.
An admin dashboard with per-section scores, attempt counts, struggle analytics, and CSV export for board review.
Their paper supplier order form, digitized faithfully. Line items round-trip exactly as written on paper, and the app generates filled or blank PDFs on demand.
A break-glass admin CLI baked into the runtime image, so a fully locked-out client can reset a password with one command. When your client is a small nonprofit, that is not a nice-to-have.

Engineering notes.

Every SQL query is compile-time checked, and the Docker build needs zero database access
Training content and migrations are embedded in the binary, so the deployed image needs no files on disk
Argon2id password hashing, JWT sessions with an enforced minimum secret length, and a CORS allowlist instead of a wildcard
Config validates at startup with actionable errors, including the exact openssl command to fix a weak secret
Admin pages are lazy-loaded so the PDF library stays out of the volunteer-facing first load on phones

Volunteer training page with section progress and content — STATION-BY-STATION TRAINING

Admin dashboard with volunteer training records and pass rates — ADMIN DASHBOARD // DEMO DATA

Digitized supplier order form with PDF export — SUPPLIER ORDER FORM // PAPER TO PDF

Training flow at tablet width — TABLET // THE PANTRY RUNS ON IPADS

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