Siti Mashitah Shamsul ‐ Anuar Vincent Chen Brittany Caroline Moore Scott E. Brown Pay It Forward UMD Helping Terps Help Others.

Siti Mashitah Shamsul‐Anuar

Vincent Chen

Brittany Caroline Moore

Scott E. Brown

Pay It Forward UMD

Helping Terps Help Others

Problem Motivation

• Benefits of Volunteering

• New life experiences

• Resume building

• Establishing career networks

• Enhancing self image

• Building confidence

• Make new friends

Problem Description• Current Statistics For UMD

• 18,800 Students participating

• About 122,330 volunteer hours

• That’s about 6.5 hours per student

• Includes required volunteer work

• Student Issues• Don’t know where to

start• Difficult to fit in with

schedule

Past Solutions

• Current Opportunities:

• Alternative Breaks

• America Reads

• Memorial Chapel

Past Solutions

What makes our solution different?

Connect With Friends & Pay It Forward

Track Your Involvement

• Features:

• User Profile

• Visibility settings

• Readability

• Current work

Fit Into Student Schedules

Rewards

Target Users

• Primary User Group

• University of Maryland Students

• Secondary User Group

• Volunteer Organizations

User Research

• Survey students

• Interview volunteer organization leaders

• How do they currently connect to students?

References• LCSL Quick Facts. Retrieved February 18, 2013 from: http://

thestamp.umd.edu/student_involvement/lcsl/about_lcsl/quick_facts

• Volunteering 2010. (2011, January 28). Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110128.htm

• Volunteermatch. (2012, October 19). Retrieved February 25, 2013 from http://www.volunteermatch.org/

• Francis, J. E. (2011). The functions and norms that drive university student volunteering. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 16(1), 1-12. Retrieved February 18, 2013 from http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f674fff7-3859-43a5-b4e7-f386c20428b2%40sessionmgr112&vid=2&hid=121