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A presentation put together based on research on the current state of global volunteering and the Help-In survey results. This gives the basis on the need for Help-In.
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- 1. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
- 2. Global Volunteer Statistics 140 million people Volunteer each year Equivalent to 20.8 million full time paid workers These make up $400 million in global GDP *Source – The Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work / International Labour Organization. / International Labour Office Department of Statistics- Geneva: ILO, 2011
- 3. Types of Volunteering • Building • Providing Education • Improving Health • Providing Sustainability Programs • Personal Development and Lifestyle Training • Address Gender Equality • Events, Fundraising and Marketing • Campaigns Providing Equipment • Research Volunteers
- 4. Aims • Reduce workload • Increase projects and value • Increase funding • Increase volunteering • Easier online experience • More information • Increase transparency • Leave a lasting legacy. • Virtual volunteering • Increase global skills • Start up new businesses Crowd Funding Create Platform Market Users Add Value Expand
- 5. Current Online Experience • No one platform • Poor Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) • Some databases exist • Some websites list projects • Cut out profiteering “Middle Men” organisations • Time consuming tasks • Limited planning time • Reduced time = MORE Non Profits Too many places online for different tasks
- 6. Common Time Consuming Tasks Getting Volunteers: • Advertise position • Receive applications • Examine skills • Managing • Training and Orientation Getting Funding: • Multiple funding • No consistency • Many applications • Many rejections Other help: • Web Design and Updating, • Data Entry and Marketing • Translation • Legal or Accountancy • Promoting Organisation Non Profits
- 7. Funding • Funding deficits • Non Profits need funds • No consistency • Restricting quantity of projects • Crowdfunding • Conclusions Non Profits Identify Create Project Crowd Fund Volunteers and Complete Project New Project
- 8. Leave a Lasting Legacy School Example for Non Profit using the Platform
- 9. Reduce Workload for all Good Causes • Decrease time consuming tasks • Reduce donation applications • Reduce funding failures • Reduce the need to look • Reduce management time • Cut amount of online resources • Improved SEO – Get them noticed Result - More great work
- 10. Current Online Experience • No central platform • Time consuming online searches • Multiple sources • Middle men • 25% give up • 87% feel the whole process should be easier. Volunteers
- 11. Current Online Experience • Time consuming applications • Google searches • Websites scattered due to poor SEO • Pay companies for database usage • Middle men charges • People give up when their intentions were good • Join multiple websites Common Issues
- 12. Volunteer Survey Results 0 5 10 15 20 25 Less than 10 Hours 10 to 20 Hours 20 to 30 Hours 30 to 40 Hours 40 to 50 Hours 50+ Hours %Surveyed Number of Hours Spent Online Time Spent Looking Online After all the time they spent: • 30% ended up finding very few opportunities online • 25% actually ended up giving up
- 13. Volunteer Survey Results 0 10 20 30 40 1 to 2 3 to 4 5 to 6 7 to 8 9 to 10 10+ %Surveyed Number of Applications Completed Number of Applications to Non Profits and Websites 87% of those surveyed felt that the whole process of volunteering should be easier
- 14. Increase Volunteerism • Create usable platform • Global opportunity matching • Non Profit ranking • Messaging facility • Follow a Non Profit • Up front information to start on arrival • Ongoing contact Volunteers
- 15. Solution Build a free “one stop shop” platform Connect users needing help to those willing to give it Connect those wanting to help to those that need it Both Hands on opportunities and virtual opportunities Vision and Achieve Goal All the technology exists, it just needs to be harnessed
- 16. “The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.” – Carson McCullers “You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.” - Woodrow Wilson “I have faith in humanity, but I don´t always think we’re given the right tools to make the most of our giving nature. I’m committed to making a positive change in the world, but I can’t do it alone” ― Richard Hawkesford "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others“ - Mahatma Gandhi "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.“ - Napoleon Hill
- 17. Subscribe ready to support our crowdfunding campaign at www.help-in.org
Editor's Notes
- 140 million people Volunteer each year That’s the equivalent of 20.8 million full time paid workers A conservative estimate suggests these volunteers make up $400 million in global GDP
- Building Providing Education Improving Health Providing Sustainability Programs Personal Development and Lifestyle Training Address Gender Equality Events, Fundraising and Marketing Campaigns Providing Equipment Research Volunteers (E.g. Geology field volunteers Etc.)
- Reduce Workload for all Good Causes Increase number of new projects and add more value to existing Increase funding for good causes Increase Hands On and Virtual volunteering globally Make it easier for volunteers to find opportunities Give more information to volunteers Increase transparency of donations More power for Non Profits to leave a lasting Legacy. Provide platform for Virtual Training and Education Programs Help grow skill base in developing countries Help individuals use new skills to start up new businesses
- No integral platform for Non Profits Singular Website SEO makes them difficult to find Some databases exist giving them space with no interaction Some websites exist to list projects and are still only a databases with no interaction Middle men volunteer organisations do not support grass root non profits Over half their working week is spent finding volunteers and funding. Limited on time to look for the right skills and take what comes along. Reducing time = more productivity and more projects
- Getting Volunteers: Advertising position Receiving applications Vetting Skills Managing Training and Orientation Getting Funding: Multiple sources - Major Donors, Individual Donors, Campaigns, Local Fundraising Events and online via social media No consistent donators Time consuming applications Many rejections Other help: Web Design and Updating, Data Entry and Marketing Translation Legal or Accountancy Promoting the organisation via Website, Social Media or Blogging
- Needs: Large funding deficits occurred after credit crunch mainly from 2008 and 2009 when the global financial crisis hit and set in but only marginal improvements in the years since. All NPOs always need funds to do the great work they do. Their backers can come and go leaving it a constant task to generate more income Crowd Funding Statistics Extremely trendy way fund projects, an estimated number of crowd funding platforms in 2012 was 536 Estimated volume of funds raised in 2012 was $2.7b and expected to be up to $5.1b in 2013 The Social Causes category is the largest category and represents 30% of the total market. The donation social causes category has seen the smallest growth at 43%. Conclusions The platform will give all NGOs, NPOs and Charities a stronger voice and a new revenue stream in the form of a trendy way to raise funds that´s less time consuming always there. Spend more time on Identification, Making the project, legitimacy, and evaluation. Looking for new partnerships and Strategic Planning. The result is they will be more efficient and focussed on doing more of the good work they set out to do (More Projects). They currently spend more of their time administrating. Administration and looking for fundraising is incredibly time consuming * Statistics source - http://visual.ly/crowdfunding-statistics-and-trends
- Work with the local community and Identify the need In this example a school needs skills in General Structure, Solar Power, Electrician and Plumbing Project profile is raised and volunteers skills in their profile are matched. The Local NPO identifies locals who want to learn new skills. The locals work alongside the skilled volunteers and learn new skills. Once the project is completed The NPO works out a continued learning program for the locals wanting to learn. The local gets to a level where he can start his own Building, Solar Power, Electrician or plumbing business and with the help of the NGO can go and look for start up business crowd funding via the platform. The school is built and needs teachers. Volunteer teachers in multiple fields can be raised as a new project in the platform and organised to coincide with the completion of the school.
- Decrease time spent looking for, vetting and managing volunteers Decrease the time spent looking for funding Increase Donations Reduce the need to go looking for other forms of help Reduce on site training and orientation Stop the need to use multiple online sources for all the above tasks Reduce the fact people can’t find their singular site by increasing SEO
- No Centralised place for volunteers to use Its very time consuming to find anything online A large amount of websites to join, money to pay, applications to complete and still not find anything. Middle men organisations can charge large fees with not even a third going to the Non Profit itself. 25% of volunteers end up “giving up” and not volunteering because it´s so time consuming and difficult. 85% of potential volunteers feel the whole process of volunteering should be easier.
- Very time consuming process Google searches throw up a massive amount of information which is not always relevant Good cause websites are scattered across many pages and are often far down the SEO list It´s necessary to pay companies for the use of their websites which are really just databases Middle men organisations can charge up to $1,000 or more per week so exclusive unless your rich putting people off The whole process is time consuming and expensive and often results in people giving up when their intentions were good People join and pay for access to 4 or more websites not always giving them results
- Conclusions One clear conclusion there is a massive need for a “One Stop Shop” for anyone who wants to volunteer their Skills, Time, Energy or Money to good causes. No one should ever give up because the technology is not good enough to make it easy.
- Create a Useable Platform - Give Volunteers a usable platform and a “One Stop Shop” Global opportunities matched to their skills – Cross Referencing searching (Job matching/dating websites) Non Profit ranking so they know what they’re getting into – Trip Advisor Messaging Facility - Allows them to communicate with past volunteers (Facebook) Follow a Non Profit or project of interest - Twitter Up front information to know what's expected and start on arrival – Uploaded information such as training and orientation to reduce time for non profits on volunteers arrival Ongoing Contact - Allow them to still be in touch with and a part of the organisation once the projects completed
- Build Platform Use Existing technologies and what third party API’s could be leveraged. Combination of Social Media, Profile Databases, Project Databases, Skill Matching and Secure donating Attract Users and Market Create Video, Viral advertising, Get Non Profits to sign up and start raising projects. Get Volunteers to complete profiles. Match Create Project Donation section Use the space created for the projects to have essentially a crowdfunding section to increase funding and projects Platform Development Develop professional Virtual Volunteers network, Classrooms using Skype and Google Hangouts. Resources Centre – Information of interest to Non Profits like LinkedIn professional magazines to members. Have a feedback option, listen to users and create the one stop shop. Develop apps and ability to connect to other existing platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Vision and Achieve Goal Create a platform that has similarities to LinkedIn but for good causes. Also use Skype to develop more depth to the offer
- I would love to turn round and say this platform was built by Volunteers for Volunteers But I can’t do that without technical help The idea is fully down on paper I would love the first volunteers to be you It would be my pleasure to put your names on the platform and credit you all as the architects forever In a competitive tech market, this could be something of significant value to have on your CV/Resume and help you stand out