Use Cases

• Improving recruitment

  • A data standard to describe the persona or profile of a volunteer and a potential volunteer
  • A data standard to describe a volunteering opportunity
  • A means to match personas / profiles to opportunities (brokerage)

• Incentivising retention

  • A data standard to describe a volunteer’s current and previous work in an organisation or across organisations

• Increasing awareness and marketing

  • A data standard to describe a volunteering opportunity and the personal or social outcomes it has, portable between advertising systems

• Making volunteer skill checks, background checks, and training more efficient

  • A portable data standard to describe a volunteer’s current and previous work, training, and accreditations from previous organisations

• Mobilising volunteers in national emergencies (and events)

  • A data standard for volunteers and opportunities that is interoperable between national-scale calls for volunteering and local-level recruitment and management

• Building evidence and reports for use in management decisions

  • A data standard to describe a volunteer’s work in an organisation that is aggregable and suited to management needs
  • A means to interpret aggregate data that suits the skills and time constraints of the sector

• Reporting impact (and potential impact) to donors (and potential donors)

  • A data standard to describe an organisation’s work and the social benefit it provides
  • Controlled, standardised procurement requirements for funders to use

• Ensuring digital platforms all speak the same language, allowing information to move between systems

  • Ensuring there is consensus amongst digital tool providers on a data standard and widespread adoption afterward.