Volunteero - Improving the lives of those who are socially isolated and lonely

志愿者是一个平台，让志愿者只需点击一个按钮就可以轻松完成。正如任何试图做志愿者的人都会告诉你的那样，这是一个布满繁文缛节的雷区。90%的人声称想做志愿者，只有20%的人这样做。为什么会这样？志愿工作并不容易，以下是一些最常见的不做志愿的理由：*找不到合适的组织*注册和培训过程缓慢且效率低下*志愿服务机会往往缺乏灵活性*人们害怕做出长期承诺如果这些都适用于阅读良好的人，我们正在改变这一切。Volunteero是一款应用程序，可以让你：*找到你热衷的社会事业所在的组织*在应用程序本身注册并完成所有必需的培训*找到可以单独完成的任务，最适合你的能力和时间表的任务*完成任务并记录你的经历无论你完成一项任务还是1000项任务，你都能真正改变！我们相信，任何想做志愿者的人都没有理由不做。我们的雄心是提高全球志愿服务的比率，同时确保每个志愿者都能获得他们最关心和最适合的机会。志愿者是由三个来自欧洲不同国家的朋友创建的，他们都是志愿者，他们都怀着让世界变得更美好的真诚愿望。--更多信息--Impact基金的延期将帮助我们进一步发展这个平台，使更多的组织能够访问它，从而获得更多需要帮助的人。与我们最初的合作伙伴Age UK Gateshead合作，以及与其他100多个慈善机构的对话，让我们对慈善机构的要求有了更好的洞察。系统碎片化是慈善机构的一个主要担忧，首先是因为预算压力增加，但也是因为双重处理、培训等给工作人员带来的额外压力。因此，慈善机构要求我们的平台能够满足志愿者可以为他们执行的所有任务，然后他们才能采用志愿者。我们扩大影响资助的重点将是基本上支持志愿者在任何慈善机构进行的所有可能任务。我们将建立一个灵活的框架，慈善机构可以通过它创建任务类型并添加支持这些任务所需的任何功能，例如电话、审批工作流程、位置服务、文件上传等。这将意味着Volunteero基本上可以向16.8万个志愿者组织中的任何一个出售产品，并将允许我们与有兴趣但要求这一新功能的慈善机构合作。为了展示我们迄今在支持电话好友方面所建立的成功，下面我列出了我们与Age UK Gateshead的案例研究的要点。-志愿者生产率提高280%-每个工作人员每月节省一周-活跃志愿者的数量增加了70%。Age UK Gateshead的业务发展主管这样评价该平台：“Volunteero为我们节省了大量时间，让我们能够专注于以前无法完成的事情。我们的志愿者喜欢它，他们更活跃，我们一直都有最好的朋友。我们现在知道志愿者一直在做什么，我们能够获得任何健康问题或行动的即时通知，供我们采取。团队对我们的反馈反应迅速，已经满足了我们的要求。

Volunteero is a platform to make volunteering as easy as clicking a button. As anyone who has tried to volunteer can tell you, it is a minefield laced with red tape. 90% of people claim to want to volunteer, only 20% do. Why is that?Volunteering isn't easy, here are some of the most commonly stated reasons for not doing so:* Cannot find the right organisation* The sign up and training process is slow and inefficient* Volunteering opportunities are often inflexible* People are fearful of making long term commitmentsIf these are true for anyone reading well, we are changing all that. Volunteero is an app that allows you to:* Find the organisation whose social cause is one you are passionate about* Sign up and complete required training all within the app itself* Find individual tasks that can be completed in isolation, tasks that best fit your ability and schedule* Complete tasks and record your experienceWhether you complete 1 task or 1000, you are able to make a real difference!We believe that no one who wants to volunteer should have a valid excuse not to. We have ambitions to improve the global rate of volunteering but also to make sure each volunteer can access the opportunities to which they care most and are best suited.Volunteero is being built by 3 friends all in different countries across Europe, all volunteers themselves and all with a genuine desire to make the world a better place.-- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HERE --The Extension for Impact funding will help us further develop the platform and make it accessible to more organisations and therefore get more help to those in need as a result.Working with our initial partner Age UK Gateshead and conversations with over 100 other charities has provided us with an improved insight into the requirements of charities. System fragmentation is a key concern for charities, firstly because of increased strain on budgets but also because of the added strain caused to staff due to double handling, training etc. As such the charities require our platform to be able to satisfy ALL tasks volunteers can conduct for them before it is feasible for them to adopt Volunteero.The focus of our extension for impact funding will be to support essentially all possible tasks that volunteers conduct at any charity. We will build a flexible framework whereby charities can create task types and add any functions that are required to support that for example, phone calls, approval workflow, location services, file upload etc. This will mean Volunteero can sell to essentially any of the 168,000 volunteer organisations and will allow us to work with charities that are interested but have asked for this new functionality.To demonstrate the success of what we have built so far in supporting telephone befriending, below I include highlights from our case study with Age UK Gateshead.- 280% increase in volunteer productivity- One week per month saved per staff member- Number of active volunteers increased by 70%Julie Latimer, Head of Business Development at Age UK Gateshead, had this to say about the platform."Volunteero has saved us so much time and allowed us to focus on things we have previously been unable to work on. Our volunteers love it, they are far more active, we have most befriending at all times. We now know what volunteers are doing at all time and we are able to get instant notification of any health concerns or actions for us to take. The team react quickly to our feedback and have already delivered so much of what we have asked for"