aNYvolunteer

Our company is currently made up of the five founders

Anna Phelan (4th grade)

Carter Scott (4th grade)

Kinjal Sharma (7th grade)

Aditi Tawde (7th grade)

Tula Tremblay (4th grade)

Everything in a nutshell!

Our app, aNYvolunteer, is here to help students from middle school to high school with finding volunteering opportunities.

App Overview

The target audience is middle school to high school students

Search capabilities include location, age requirements, hours of availability, and type of community service

App documents and automates service completion reporting process

Can maybe add student reviews of community service opportunities they have done

Market Need

Many students have to fulfill community service requirements Students usually have real preferences on what they want to do Non-profits and businesses also have trouble finding volunteers

How to Market App

 

We reach schools who reach students and will help us in spreading news of our services.

We can present our ideas to different businesses and our app will provide volunteers for their events.

360 communication plan which includes digital channels (emails, e-newsletters, bulletin boards, flyers, and bookmark) and social channels (Facebook, sms, and group texts).

Potential Competition

 

www.nycares.org is for adult volunteers

www.nycservice.org is also for adults and not easily searchable

OppGuide has an app similar to our idea but it has no presence in New York and doesn’t seem very active

Money and Finance Options

User donations

“Featuring” Certain Community Service Opportunities (get paid for it)

Foundation donation

Sign-up fee / user fee

Advertising (only if necessary)

A full reporting portal for schools and other groups

Future Expansion Opportunities

Full website / portal

App for iPhone

Go national or to other large cities

List unpaid student summer internships

Expand age group target to college students

Thanks From aNYvolunteer!