The Big Feature List

People

Volunteers

• heart of the system - people who have skills and want to help
• different levels of involvement, calls, advice, showing up, attending events, helping hand. talks and presentations
• easy sign up. manage home page profile telling people what you can offer.

Teachers

• more generally anyone who wants to ask for something - opportunity providers
• can browse potential activities and create new opportunities
• can manage volunteers, invite people
• can see where people are at in being school ready

Activity Providers

• Create content - things to do
• may deliver content and activities in conjunction with volunteers
• also manage volunteers and invitations
• Content is a repeatable pattern, a useable resource or an activity requiring time,space, people, gear and money.
• can be trainers and facilitators

Organisations

• Major concept that changes this from a person to person platform to a group to group platform
• orgs use for schools (opportunity providers),  businesses (volunteer providers), Content/Activity Providers and other resource providers
• Each org gets a home page and promotes their thing - about them and their listings, offerings etc.
• orgs can provide customised pages into the system.
• orgs can manage cohorts of their own volunteers
• single sign on for businesses
• embedded listings for businesses
• Reporting and Dashboard information - Understanding Impact
• Training for Orgs - how to have an impact
• people can belong to an organisation. - usually sharing an email domain
• people can follow an organisation - preferentially listing their activities
• Org home page has tab for signed in employees that gives them all the information they need.

Badges

• used to track accomplishments from completing user profile or police vetting to giving a talk or volunteering 10 times.
• Uses OB2. Voluntarily provides a backpack to hold credentials
• Tracks your volunteering history
• Tracks teacher engagment
• export to LMS, Linked IN etc.

Onboarding

• The experience from Sign up to First event
• simple first sign on - uses existing social media accounts, no extra work to register
• collects profile information as you go
• Training materials - what to expect when ...
• Health and Safety
• School Ready
• School Safe
• First Feedback.

Activity

• A thing you can do.
• comes from activity providers.
• may be grouped into programmes
• will require implementation using resources
• volunteers can offer to provide an activity
• when vps show interest in an activity they mean that may be available to help deliver it.

Opportunity

• created by a teacher (op)
• based on an activity or original
• based on a previous opportunity (run again).
• identifies the resources required
• people can sign up and show interest in an opportunity
• may be fixed event - time/location or floating - a call or background work. - has a type.
• always takes time - commitment.
• workflow→ draft, published, happening now, completed, cancelled.
• completion ops moved to archive/history along with feedback and collected media/stories

Interest

• a relationship between a volunteer and an opportunity or activity
• has a life cycle from showing interest, to being invited and committing to attend,through to completion.
• people can have many interests and opportunities can have many interested people.
• op/vp workflow → interested, invited, committed, attended/not attended/withdrawn
• notifications (email or other) sent to parties involved on each transition
• op can message all or subgroup of vps
• vps can message op

Search

Search for Opportunities

• done by volunteers looking for something to do
• search by text, date, region, and keywords
• results sorted by distance in time and space (relevance)
• paginate long lists

Recommended Opportunities

• shown to volunteers on their home page
• based on skills, previous interests, upcoming and location

Search for Activities

• done by teachers (ops) looking for something to do
• search by keyword - topic, age range

Search for People (find volunteers)

• done by teachers looking for people to help them
• generates a shortlist of people based on skills, availability, location etc
• allows teacher to send out a would you be interested in helping message

Browse by Activity provider and Activity

• for teachers - show list of all activity providers
• select an ap.  see list of all their activities - grouped by programme/bundle)
• select an activity

Impact

• measures the effectiveness of each activity/opportunity/engagement
• both quantative - count things, and qualitative - tell stories
• As a business I want to know how my volunteering investment is having an impact - dashboard and reports
  • dollar figure per hour for each employee that goes out, CSR spend
• Agency reports - wish list - ideally available on the platform
  • location of schools - no . students receiving education support from volunteers in each school 
  •  also data on Maori , pasifika, female students, split by need level, e.g economically disadvantaged areas,
  • diversity measure of supported students against current tech workforce. e.g how are we supporting  to increase the diversity of current workforce
  • Long term studies, diversity assessment, what works
• Schools and Volunteers - record of what they have done.

School Ready

• Police Vetting
  • online identity verification
  • Form data collection
  • Automation into DIA
  • Flag/Badge on account
• Induction training
  • content to read
  • video content
  • tracking completion
  • working with children.   - Datacom LNOD team.  (learning and org development)
  • high deprivation areas.
  • Culturally sustaining

Embedded Values

• unconscious bias
• Diversity
• how do we surface need
• building trust

Content

• taking existing written content into accessible forms
• understanding pedagogy of adults.
• Content delivery system.