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| Web Synergies is pleased to present its latest delivery to NVPC (the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre) - SG Cares Online Portal. SG Cares, run by NVPC , is an online portal that allows for flexible volunteering opportunities. |
| According to The Straits Times dated March 3, 2010, ever since the portal's launch last September, the number of volunteers have doubled to 3,400 and has had close to 200 activities. New members are not just merely signing up, but also actively participating in activities. About 7 in 10 of new members have taken part in the portal's activities. NVPC is also seeing an encouraging increase of volunteers in the age band of 25 - 34 (traditionally a group with lower than average volunteering rate). The initiative has also encouraged participation from time-poor professionals who still want to do their part in helping those in need. |
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| The portal was designed with the end objectives in mind: |
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Ease of use: The developers were careful to ensure that usability standards were well met - with the end result being a user-friendly interface. |
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Flexibility: The portal allows for volunteers / potential volunteers to customize their volunteering preferences, e.g. by means of 'location', 'date range' and 'area of interest'. This facilitates for easy assessment of choices, helping volunteers to pick the volunteering assignment that fits best. |
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Scalability : Able to scale up to unlimited Automation of Activitie, volunteers, Volunteer Host Organisations effectively without any changes to architecture. |
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Performance standards: Designed for most optimal performance standards such as low page loading and response times, quick access to key functions and so on. |
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Web 2.0 features: The portal is well connected to social networking portals. |
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Automation of Activitie: Most of the operations and transactions are between Host, VHO and Volunteers, which are automated and available mostly online. |
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| As part of the project, Web Synergies delivered the following. |
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Conceptualization of the home page based on the organisation's brand image and website goals |
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A customized template based Content Management System based on business needs as well as ensuring usability for the administrator's ease-of-use
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Volunteer Management i.e. converting public users into volunteers by providing easy, flexible volunteering programs and searching options based on their location/interest; smooth facilitation of online volunteer registration and adding their friends as volunteers while keeping track of their activities |
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Volunteering Host Organisations Management (online registration of non-profits activity/program which is managed by trained volunteer leaders) |
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Email marketing i.e. self managed template based email broadcasting |
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Viral engagement i.e. leverage the viral advantages of social networking sites like Facebook etc |
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Address: www.sgcares.org |
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| Date of launch: September 2009 |
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| Client: NVPC |
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| About SGCares |
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SG Cares is a new initiative being developed at the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), a non-profit and non-governmental organisation.
NVPC leads and catalyses transformational initiatives in volunteerism and philanthropy to build a sustainable future for all in Singapore.
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SG Cares is currently being incubated at NVPC and will eventually be a separate entity once it becomes viable and sustainable. It's brand vision is to nurture a caring and engaged society where those who can, spontaneously and regularly volunteer their time and talent to meet community needs. This will be achieved via making volunteering easy, meaningful and enjoyable and providing opportunities for people in Singapore to contribute actively and meaningfully to a wide range of causes.
For more information, please feel free to visit: http://www.sgcares.org/ |
