Volunteer for NGO Work on www.jaagore.com

Jaagore.com has different solutions for all users who want to get informed and connected on issues related to ‘Social Well-being’ in our country. The four main sections on the portal are – Act, Speak up, Learn and Connect. The first of these four sections is called ‘Volunteer’ which hosts a bank of live volunteering opportunities posted by various NGO’s (Non-governmental organizations) who are registered on the portal. You could view this section at www.jaagore.com/volunteer .

‘Act’ section enables citizens to convert their intent of contributing to social causes to reality. This section is a pool of active projects being run by various NGO’s in different parts of the country which requires volunteer assistance and support. Currently more than 280 volunteering projects are being featured in this section which users could opt for. Even users who are not registered on the portal are encouraged to get connected with NGO’s projects they may be interested in contributing to.

‘Volunteer’ section simplifies the user search for a suitable NGO project or opportunity with the help of different ‘Search’ options. A user could filter the projects by relevant fields like ‘ Issues’ which gives a list of various issues that are featured currently on the portal. The second search filter is ‘City’ where user can select the location where they are interested in. The third option is the ‘NGO name’ by which user can specifically search for an NGO of choice. The last, but not the least, is the filter of ‘Date’ where user gets to search for work of specific dates like holidays or weekends.

The main page of this section features 10 projects from the project pool which get selected dynamically. The users can view all the projects by clicking on ‘View all’ where the information is displayed page-wise chronologically. Each project listing carries the gist of information like Issue category, Location, Dates and a brief description.

Each project listing has three options for the users – NGO Profile, Project details and Volunteer. ‘NGO profile’ links to the profile page of the contributing NGO while the ‘Project details’ links to the project description page. The ‘Volunteer’ tab links to the page where a user can submit cursory details and thereby a notification gets sent to both the NGO and the user alerting the NGO of the user interest to volunteer for the chosen project.

Users can choose the projects not only basis the Issue or the City but also basis if the work is based at the NGO office or could be completed at the user location. Volunteer contribution is keenly desired by NGO’s for skilled projects like Website management, Corporate presentation-making, Fund-raising etc. Other volunteers who wish to have a real-time experience of NGO operations could opt for projects being conducted at the NGO location.

Groups & Events on Jaagore.com

Join Jaago Re Groups : http://www.jaagore.com/groups everyone can start their own Group with a cause. With Jaago Re groups, we can now create or join a group we are interested in. Support the issue you want to support. Be it planting a sapling in our locality to organizing a cleanliness drive in the area.

. The best part of having a brainstorming session with a group is that everyone has something or the other to contribute to every idea. And before you know it, the raw idea becomes an extremely creative one wherein a lot of people can participate. No group is complete without a set of friends who have your back. So rope in all your friends and get started by thinking of different ways to bring about a change

And then again, if you’re looking at hardcore stuff, you can browse through the already existing active Jaago Re groups. Join their groups and jump in on the conversation.

Once, a group of people were asked to make a guess at the accurate weight of an ox. Much to everyone’s surprise, the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged. Whereas, there was a huge difference when individual guesses were considered.
   

Recent studies also support the fact that groups of size more than three individuals perform better than the best individual in the group.

 Also, now everyone can make use of Jaago Re Events :  http://www.jaagore.com/event

All one has to do is create an Event and post the Date and Timing of the same.  Post this event under the groups who you want to participate in the event and watch the change happen!

No more excuses. 

Tata Tea Jaago Re! Voter Registration Campaign

Jaago Re! is a non-partisan national campaign launched by Tata Tea, to awaken and enable the citizens of India, especially the youth, to register for voting. Its mission is to register everyone in India to vote in the next 5 years, for better governance. In the launch year (2008-09), the campaign targets the top 35 cities of India, and aims to register millions of youth before the 2009 general elections.

This initiative sounds a wakeup call for the billion people of this country to unite and bring about change. A change in the quality of governance that can happen only with active participation through voting, and electing quality leaders. A change by strengthening the roots of Indian democracy.

The uniqueness of this campaign is the way technology has been innovatively leveraged to address the fundamental challenges in voter registration process. There are many hurdles which citizens face in the current voter registration process, enough to test the patience of even the most determined citizen! The issues range from getting accurate answers on how the process exactly works, knowing your Assembly Constituency, where to drop your registration form, whether you have made it to the voter list or not etc. etc. Integrating the latest advances in internet and mobile technologies in a seamless manner, Jaago Re! and its website www.jaagore.com, aim to provide a one-stop-shop solution to all your voting needs.

One of the key innovations is the launch of India’s first online voter registration engine, which allows you to fill out your voter registration form online within 5 mins! The engine has an added feature (in the 35 target cities) to locate your house address on your city map through a GIS application, in order to determine your Assembly Constituency. Click here to know about the other innovations and benefits of registering at www.jaagore.com/vote

The campaign focuses on empowering the youth of India to lead the change themselves. Not surprising, knowing that the driving force behind the campaign are a bunch of passionate youths themselves.

The youth of India have the passion and potential to make a difference, what is missing is an enabling platform. This is what Jaago Re! aims to provide. The campaign provides opportunities and tools to the youth to run their own voter registration drive – amongst their friends, community or at their campuses – and even track the number of people they have registered at www.jaagore.com . So Jaago Re! It's about time.