GoVolunteer

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GoVolunteer is an online community founded in Germany for volunteer work . The social start-up places volunteers in charitable projects and organizations. On the website govolunteer.com, interested parties can search for opportunities to get involved and filter them by location, time, language and interests. Currently (spring 2018) more than 3,000 charitable initiatives and events in over 100 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are represented on the website. Most of the projects have a focus on integration work and refugee aid.

GoVolunteer networks actors involved in integration work and imparts knowledge, for example through individual training for volunteers and project partners. Integration initiatives and projects that are part of the community are supported in their work with volunteers, project organization and communication. GoVolunteer supports diversity and engagement in society through public relations.

tasks and goals

GoVolunteer wants to make volunteer work for people and organizations simple, transparent and flexible. The aim of the social start-up is to network the actors involved in working with refugees and volunteers . This results in two main areas of responsibility:

GoVolunteer wants to:

  • Motivate people for social engagement and make it easier to start volunteering with more transparency and less bureaucracy
  • Social initiatives facilitate the implementation of voluntary projects, especially in the area of ​​integration work
  • Enable refugees and migrants to have an easier start in work and society through voluntary work
  • Actively introduce companies and their employees to the perception of social responsibility
  • Social rethinking motivates towards a participatory society in which everyone helps shape the community through personal commitment

According to its own information (as of February 2016), GoVolunteers has the vision of radically simplifying refugee aid. GoVolunteer should become the central coordination platform for refugee aid in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

organization

In the course of the refugee crisis in 2015, GoVolunteer founder and management consultant Malte Needftig experienced a high level of willingness to get involved in his environment, both among locals and the refugees themselves. At times he coordinated over 150 helpers in Berlin. However, there was a lack of transparency about the existing employment opportunities and needy recognized the challenge of coordinating volunteers and offers at the same time. So he came up with the idea of ​​networking volunteers and initiatives in integration work with a central service. A first executable version of the platform was developed with the support of McKinsey Digital Labs. At the end of 2015, the govolunteer.com community went online. A little later, Henryk Seeger joined the team, who is still running the social start-up on a voluntary basis alongside Malte Needy. Seeger is also a co-founder of the successful donation campaign “ Germany rounds up ”.

society

Since 2015 GoVolunteer has had the legal form of a registered non-profit association based in Berlin. The social start-up has its employee offices in the Migration Hub Berlin in the Alte Münze building. Founder: The board of directors is Malte Benürftig, deputy board member and treasurer is Henryk Seeger. GoVolunteer e. V. is supported by over 30 volunteer team members in Germany.

financing

GoVolunteer is largely financed through private and corporate donations, for example through campaigns on the crowdfunding platforms Startnext and betterplace.org .

GoVolunteer is currently developing social business models in the area of corporate volunteering and the sale of children's products on the topic of diversity. Under the motto “Germany is so colorful”, the start-up sells colored pencils in different skin colors , a coloring book for children and other merchandising items that are intended to raise public awareness of diversity in our society. In 2018 GoVolunteer aims to participate in the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

activities

GoVolunteer pursues its goals through various activities in the areas of volunteering and integration.

Online community

Prospects can search for engagement opportunities on the GoVolunteer website. The functionality is kept low-threshold in order to make it easy to start volunteering. The Federal Association of Voluntary Agencies (bagfa) raised in its online manual in 2017, as the year before, the GoVolunteer as a way for the recovery of young or "new" volunteers out online platform.

The online community is primarily aimed at potential volunteers who are looking for a commitment and are interested in the topics of volunteering, migration and culture. Volunteers can sign up in just a few steps and find projects in their area that need support. Filters such as location, time, language and interests make the search easier. Providers are contacted directly. Users can invite friends to projects, share their activities on social media and network with other volunteers.

Non-profit initiatives looking for volunteer support can post their projects in the online community. Various tools help you to organize the approach and scheduling of volunteers. The Berlin city mission, for example, uses GoVolunteer to recruit volunteers in their emergency shelters. The online community recruits volunteers for daily work in the areas of childcare, adult education, as well as food and supplies.

In spring 2018, more than 3,000 charitable projects in over 100 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland were part of GoVolunteer's online community. Issues such as flight and integration are particularly well represented. According to its own information, GoVolunteer has 120,000 users. Almost a third of them have their own refugee or migration background .

In the spring of 2016, the online magazine Good Impact reported on plans to expand GoVolunteer into a social network for helpers.

Cooperations

As a cooperation partner, GoVolunteer u. a .: Integration initiative "We together" of the German economy, Federal Working Group of Volunteer Agencies , betterplace.org , German Chambers of Industry and Commerce , United Nations Development Program (UNDP), German Children and Youth Foundation , Integreat , and as a project partner u. a .: Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , Arbeiterwohlfahrt , Berliner Stadtmission , German Red Cross , Johanniter , Kiron University , Maltese Germany , school sponsors Germany .

GoVolunteer also cooperates with local projects such as refugees-Willkommen, GiveSomethingBackToBerlin, Serve The City, Start With A Friend and many other initiatives.

As an integrative project, GoVolunteer endeavors to cooperate with other organizations to coordinate voluntary work. Since 2016, GoVolunteer has been campaigning across Germany through the Helfer Alliance together with the online communities HelpTo and Ichhelfe.jetzt for transparency, exchange and cooperation between digital offers in integration work. In the long term, a common online platform should link the offers.

Projects and Campaigns

GoVolunteer supports those involved in integration work through further training and events. Volunteers and organizations receive individual coaching, e.g. B. via project organization and communication. Network meetings and topic-specific campaigns create personal exchange and encounters. 150 refugees and volunteers from the GoVolunteer cooperation partners were able to take part in the last home game of the 2015/2016 season of the Hertha BSC football club.

Since the end of 2017, GoVolunteer has been providing refugees and migrants with an easier start into the labor market and better participation in society through an honorary position with the integration project “Committed Newcomers” . Participants in the program will receive the Berlin Volunteer Pass refugee assistance and to the Berlin volunteering map apply.

With its own communication and campaign work, GoVolunteer would like to help shape the public dialogue on the topics of integration and engagement and promote tolerance in society. Since September 2017, the nationwide campaign “This is how colorful Germany is” has been setting an example for diversity with television advertising, social media campaigns and merchandising and encouraging people to take action themselves.

Awards

Crowdfunding contest

The GoVolunteer association's “So colorful is Germany” project won funding as part of the crowdfunding contest of the German Integration Prize.

Advocates and supporters

Aydan Özoğuz , Minister of State and Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, about the social start-up: “The commitment of the many volunteers ensures that refugees are well received in our country. Every helping hand is welcome and we know that direct contact between citizens and refugees is good for social cohesion. Therefore I wish the GoVolunteer project a good start! "

Many decision makers and public figures support the charitable work of GoVolunteer, including a .: SPD chairwoman Andrea Nahles , Berlin mayor Michael Müller , journalist Sabine Christiansen , LINKE politician Gregor Gysi , director Doris Dörrie , ex-VW boss Matthias Müller and actress Ulrike Folkerts .

Web links

Individual evidence

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