The Cause Connection is a community where volunteers are matched with organizations working for causes they are passionate about, in their locality. Share your experiences with other volunteers, inspire them to get out, do more for their neighbourhood.
Earn Karmapoints, and let your friends know about it through social media!
12. Premium Usage: Simulation
Parameters
Simulation Parameter Unit Value
Staff cost Rs/man-month 10000
Printing cost per copy Rs/copy 4
Distribution cost per copy Rs/copy 0.25
Total cost per copy Rs/copy 4.25
Design cost per copy Rs 30000
Target number of volunteers number 100
Duration of drive months 1
Collateral copies distributed per
successful volunteer number 15
Collateral printed number 1500
13. Premium Usage: Value Delivered
Cost:
Cost: Cause Value
Value Per Drive Unit Traditional Connection Delivered
Duration months 1 0.5
man-
Staff time month 0.75 0.1
Staff cost Rs 7500 1000 6500
Design of collateral Rs 30000 30000 0
Printing & Distribution of collateral Rs 6375 0 6375
Cost of Cause Connection service Rs 0 7000 -7000
Total Rs 43875 38000 5875
Rs/voluntee
Total Cost per Volunteer r 438.75 380 58.75
Intangible Benefit (better volunteers,
longer term association, etc.) Rs ?
14. But…
Charging per volunteer recruited puts a cap on
our own virality
Instead, we can charge organizations by
providing them project management services,
saving them time and effort required to keep
track of volunteer activity offline