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"One click" job applications

Take the pain out of applying for jobs, free up time for volunteering and upskilling, and find employers the best recruits

Andrew - 01/24/2012


Change the world in just your pyjamas!

Help From Home is a volunteer driven initiative that runs a free community service to promote and encourage participation in easy, no commitment microvolunteering opportunities where a spare 10 seconds to 30 minutes is all that is needed to help out worthy causes - even in your pyjamas!

Mike - 01/22/2012


Opportunity Network

Utilising social networking technology to create a collaborative network of opportunity for young people.

Grace - 01/11/2012


i-canhelp

i-canhelp is a way of helping out in your local area, informally and directly. Bite size opportunities to make a difference. It’s about specific, helpful exchanges, without an intermediary. Think about it as online dating for helpers and helpees. People, groups or organisations can register the help they need, with the emphasis on bitesize tasks

Paul - 10/23/2011


MinuteBox, making expert advice social

Minutebox is a social way to trade buy and sell expertise. We are driven by our vision to make human expertise accessible and affordable, and we aim to be the best facilitator of real-time knowledge sharing. Individuals are able to use MinuteBox as a gateway to access expertise in a timely and cost-effective manner, while experts can monetise their expertise online in small units of time.

Josh - 06/21/2011


Volunteer Impact

A tool for volunteers to self-measure the impact volunteering has on their personal well-being

Social - 06/07/2011


Volunteer-Run Communications for Social Ventures [Updated!]

Bright One is a volunteer-run communications agency for social ventures.Our team is on hand to offer charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations affordable yet effective PR and communications campaigns. We help organisations get their messages heard and offer resources so they can focus on core activities.

Ben - 05/11/2011


The Good Gym

The Good Gym finds meaningful ways for people to exercise, like visiting older people in their homes or helping to clear a room in a community centre.

Mark - 03/16/2011


Open Cinema

Bringing the cinema club for the homeless to Washington DC

Dominic - 01/30/2011


School of Everything Groups

Reinventing lifelong learning by helping local authorities create local face-to-face peer learning groups.

Paul - 01/06/2011



People

Samrye_enspiral

Organization : Enspiral
Role : Connector
Interests : action, activism, apps, asset transfer, change, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-working, collaboration, collaborative consumption, communication, communities, communities of practice, communications, community development, community engagement, culture, design, design thinking, Conscious Consumers, disruption, digital, e-learning, bio-mimicry, energy, enterprise, entrepreneurship, enviroment, filmmaking, graphic design, infographics, innovation, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, local, local food systems, open innovation, open enterprise, organic, participative design., community sector, emancipation, regeneration, service delivery, social, social business, social change, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social media, social venture, sustainability, technology, tech, transition towns, transformation, user experience design, volunteering, web design, web development, youth


Rob

Organization : Marsh Farm Outreach
Role : Director
Interests : activism, affordable homeownership for low income households, asset transfer, big society, catalytic social change, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., change, citizen engagement/voice, citizen engagement, citizenship, civic engagement, civil rights, collaboration, co-working, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community engagement, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community hosts, community management / ownership, community media, community organisation, community solutions, conscious consumers, doing more with less, emancipation, enterprise development, grassroots projects, grassroots projects to empower communities, helping people into work, inclusion, innovation for inclusion, local economic development, local economies, new economics, organisation, outreach, participative design., participatory budgeting, permaculture, public and voluntary and community sectors, renewable energy, self education, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social inclusion, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social innvoation, social interaction, unemployment, urban co-production, volunteer, volunteering, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship


Polly

Organization : Slivers of Time
Role :
Interests : Adult social care, volunteering, timebanking, citizen engagement, web technology, unemployment


Mike

Email : mike@hometownplus.co.uk
Organization : Hometownplus
Role : Head of Partnerships
Interests : Creating shared value, currency, complementary currency, information ecosystem, incentives, behaviour change, smart community, smart city, social enterprise, volunteered personal information, VPI, vendor relationship management, VRM


Mike

Organization : Help From Home
Role : Founder
Interests : Microvolunteering, volunteering


Michael

Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing


Michael

Email : michael@waugaman.org
Organization :
Role :
Interests : volunteerism, nfp management


Mark

Email : mark.smitham@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Organization : Home Office
Role : Project Manager
Interests : Project Management, IT, modern languages, digital innovation, languages, local government, networking, open data, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, public service transformation, social enterprise, social media, technology, theatre, transparency, volunteering, web, web 2.0, web design, web development, youtube, yoga


Mark

Email : mark@thegoodgym.org
Organization : The Good Gym
Role : Project Manager
Interests : Running, volunteering, getting fit, older people services, collaborative consumption, befriending, communities, isolation, local government, social enterprise, social innovation


Lisa

Organization :
Role :
Interests : government access, older people, young people, volunteering, psychology