Do Something Good Briefing

Transforming volunteering in your community

Bridging volunteering into the

digital age The challenge

Many want to contribute back to society through volunteering but have trouble finding information about where and how without pre-existing relationships with NGOs

Organisations struggle to gain access to quality volunteers and have trouble tracking the specific skills and performance of their volunteer base

The impact

Transforming the way volunteering happens by:

aggregating information centrally,

accessing real time and mobile volunteering information,

making it social by connecting it with Facebook,

and making it fun through badges and points.

How it works

Do Something Good is an online platform that helps people find local volunteering opportunities and gain points and badges for participating.

Organisations can set up volunteering opportunities and manage registrations. They also have a tool to that enables registering volunteers from their own web sites.

Organisation’s volunteering

opportunities are automatically

aggregated in a single place

Volunteering opportunity map, date, and location

See friends that have registered

An example

volunteering

opportunity

For volunteers

Easy registration

Benefit from one-click registration to the site thanks to integration with Facebook. Volunteers can quickly begin registering for opportunities.

Keep in touch

See a stream of updates from organisations you have previously volunteered with on the front page.

For organisations

Manage

Track volunteers for particular events

Collect volunteer information when they sign up

Update them with the latest changes and upcoming volunteering

Control the registration process – automatic or by approval

Publicise

Organisation profile with all your volunteering events

Stream of your latest events into each user’s home page

Allow others to embed widgets showing your upcoming volunteering opportunities onto their website

By the numbers

825 Volunteers

37 Volunteering opportunities online

25 Participating organisations

Some organisations on DSG

Development Phases

Phase 1 Kuala Lumpur

May-Aug

Phase 2 Major cities in Malaysia, including Penang, Johor Baru, Ipoh, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching

Aug-Oct

Phase 3 Nationwide availability of volunteering opportunities, availability of the platform in Bahasa Malaysia

Sept onwards

Meet the Team

Yap Jin Rui (Team Leader) A firm believer in maximising human potential through purposeful programmes.

Harinder Singh (Developer) A former security specialist and currently a digital strategist at Social @ Ogilvy.

Yau Hui Min (Coordinator) Hui Min is deeply involved in Model United Nations and volunteering outreach.

Gerald Yeong (Developer) A former storage specialist at Oracle and currently a web developer at Newton Circus.

Kal Joffres (Advisor) A social movement director at Tandemic and social enterprise investor at Tandemic Fund.

For more information contact:

Yap Jin Rui

jinrui@tandemic.com

Ramli Ibrahim