2. What is Engage?
• A multi-genre volunteer platform that
simplifies event scheduling and filling roles
– E.G: Plays in a community theatre setting
• Engage rewards volunteers for every event
they sign up for with points and activity-
specific achievements (Like theatre or sports)
3. Mission Statement
Engage wants to improve volunteer retention by
providing organizations with a system that
makes scheduling and rewarding their volunteers
easy and convenient for everyone. Our services
are free because we are volunteers ourselves and
know that money is tight in volunteer
organizations.
4. Why Engage?
• Idea comes from shortage of volunteers in
community theatre, but applies to many
genre’s of volunteerism
• A desire to contribute to the community by
making things easier and recognizing each
contribution
5. How does it work?
• Organizations create a profile and are then able to post
their events
(such as a play in community theatre or a swim meet)
– Accessible through a web portal (for schedulers) as well as devices
– Org can then send out a call directly to users who sign up
autonomously for roles like driver, usher, cast, chaperone
• Volunteers create a profile and then search for
opportunities via event name, date, or organization
– Addresses commonly stated issue where volunteers don’t know what’s
going on, when, etc
6. Nuts and bolts
• Works similar to audition signups
– Events show openings for each day, organized by time. Volunteers just click to sign up,
then are confirmed by the Org for the slot.
• Each event can be seen by all, or select (such as a member BBQ) by
using audience viewing settings
• Built-in scheduler makes creating an event easy
• Org can create default event templates to re-use
– Theatre E.g.: 3 ushers every show, start 30min before, 1 Prop head, Lights,
Sound, Run is from Th-Sat 7:30pm 1st week, Wed-Sat 7:30pm 2nd week
plus a matinee 2nd Sat at 2pm. Cast list auto-populates from Wikipedia
• Rewards are built-in
7. Rewards for users
• Two-tiered:
– Points and achievements to keep people coming back
• Achievements for specific activities (promotes
repeated volunteering)
– “Every day I’m Usherin’” achievement for ushering 4 shows
– “Driving Miss Daisy” achievement for 3 consecutive driving slots
• Points earned for each event
– E.g.: 2 points each time someone volunteers to usher whole play
– E.g.: 1 point for each event chaperoned
• Points unlock other things like Trivia
8. When will Engage be available?
• Design stage is complete
• Website url has been obtained (www.volentold.com)
• Web design and construction is in progress
• Beta testing of closed system projected for end of
March 2016
• Limited (by invitation) rollout target is late summer
2016
