Skilled Volunteerism Enablement

[Fishbiscuit]

Colony Hackathon Submission

Skilled Volunteerism platform

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Project Description

Develop a framework for an ecosystem that rewards volunteers for utilising their expertise for social causes or projects. Catalyse a revolution in volunteering beyond physical man-hours but to allow a fine-tuned experience with like-minded and empowering projects.

References: https://www.bantu.life/:Helping others should be easy bantu helps you stay connected with the communities and causes you care about

https://www.catchafire.org/: Catchafire matches skilled professional volunteers with nonprofits to help them increase their capacity and achieve their missions.

http://conjunctconsulting.org/: Southeast Asia’s first social change consultancy, Conjunct Consulting is engaging, mobilising and empowering talent to strengthen social good organisations in Singapore. Conjunct does this through consulting projects with non-profits, building a community of skills-based volunteers, and various formats of corporate engagements. .

Project Repository

https://github.com/Fishbiscuit/ColonyHackathon-61

Team Members and Contact info

Drop me an e-mail here: qingze_hum@mymail.sutd.edu.sg

Skilled Volunteers: QZ: https://github.com/Fishbiscuit Timothy Liu: https://github.com/tlkh Anderson Q: https://github.com/42piratas/andersonq Vadim: https://github.com/vadimchirkov

Feel free to drop me an e-mail on ideas or to work together!

I come from Singapore where volunteering your time for non-profits is a common occurence. However, there is an issue with effective volunteer management. The sector is shifting towards effective altruism where organisations do not simply aim for high volunteer numbers but work towards real social impact.

[jrmoreau]

Thanks for posting your issue! Best of luck hacking!

[bubblenote]

Hey! I'm really interested in your idea because I took a social entrepreneurship course and we discussed the difficulties of amassing resources and human capital to communities in need. I'm honestly still learning about how to build dApps (I know front and back end frameworks), but not yet versed in Solidity, Truffle, Ganache. That said, would still love to help out on brainstorming and building it

[gichiba]

Awesome idea! @bubblenote @Fishbiscuit You might be able to collaborate with #53 in a meaningful way; I think the social engagement for developing nations is a great initiative.

@bubblenote -- don't worry too much about the Solidity; that's what colonyJS and colonyNetwork are for! The basic smart contract foundation has already been written, so you can help extend it to work for the needs of a project like this

[Fishbiscuit]

@bubblenote drop me an e-mail and let's talk!

[bubblenote]

@Fishbiscuit my email is emmytennis23@gmail.com I'm down to also collaborate with #53 if you want!

[farahbrunache]

@bubblenote, just sent you an email.