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Thursday Nov 27, 2008
Our ambitious plans for do-it.org.uk
We are very proud of our achievements at do-it.org.uk. Over the past eight years, with the support of our voluntary sector partners, we've built the UK's largest volunteering database, containing more than one million opportunities to volunteer.
But that's not all. We now have over 300,000 registered volunteers who apply for more than 30,000 volunteering opportunities with over 21,000 charities each month.
That's a lot of people, doing a lot of volunteering. But we're not ready to stop there. We believe volunteering can transform society, and we want to connect more people with the causes that need their help.
To help us do just that, we have launched a fundraising campaign that will help us revolutionise do-it.org.uk.
Some of our registered volunteers will have received an email about this campaign today. If you are one of them, I hope the email you received conveyed just how passionate we are about volunteering, and the difference it can make to the world.
We'll keep you updated on our plans for do-it.org.uk on this blog, but if you have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions, why not add them as a comment to this post?
Posted by Sam Thomas ( 2:02 PM ) Link to this post Comments[2]
>RSS/XML everything. E.g. make it easy to get an XML feed of Environment opportunities within X miles of a certain location and you provide a platform for others to innovate with volunteering data.
>Feedback - I've tried to contact organizations through Do-It who've taken two months to reply (or who haven't replied at all). Make sure you remind me after a couple of weeks to check that they're replied - and to give you feedback it not.
Maybe even go for social feedback - public comments and space to discuss each opportunity...
>Visuals - It would be great to see a photo (or even a video) of what turning up to that volunteering opportunity would really mean. Any way to start encouraging and aggregating UGC about volunteering opportunities?
>No volunteering opportunity? Build your own... - Provide signposting to YOF/YCF, vInspired and other places young people can go to create their own volunteering opportunities if the ones they want are not there.
I reckon there could be some good space to share ideas and approaches with the @plings (http://blogs.plings.net) project on some of this... really looking forward to seeing how Do-It develops...
Posted by Tim Davies on November 28, 2008 at 03:45 PM GMT+00:00 #
Some great ideas in there, some of which have been on our wish list for a while too.
There's so much potential for both volunteering and do-it.org.uk - looking forward to reading more on the plings blog too!
Posted by Sam on December 04, 2008 at 09:08 AM GMT+00:00 #