Posts Tagged ‘Volunteering’
Giving Thanks
Friday, September 25th, 2009
How do you thank you to a community? Well, blog it of course! Now that we have gotten over the initial excitement of being approved by Apple, we want to give recognition to all those who helped us get here. This is a daunting task due to the many folks who have been involved so please bear with us as we give it a try.
We can honestly say that without The Community Foundation’s support, we would not have gotten very far. Your support has allowed us to focus on the project while you took care of our nonprofit administration. We brought you an idea for a nonprofit startup that we developed during a sushi eating contest and you provided the nonprofit umbrella for us to make it happen which was an amazing feat. Thank you so much – we love you!
We gotta give a huge shout out to the Van Heyst Group who have provided our workspace. Our productivity is directly linked to these fine facilities and for that we are forever grateful. Thank you so much for everything. Looking for office space to rent? They have some available and it is awesome.
Both Rally Software and Amazon have provided key infrastructure components for us to develop and deliver these applications. You have made our process so much easier which is key for a large group of volunteers who are writing and testing code (you know exactly what I mean).
The Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup has been a home base for us and we can’t tell you how much the love has powered us forward. We have pitched our ideas, read your tweets (be nice!), and appreciated all of the feedback and support. Remember, we are just getting started and have much more to do so we hope you will continue to provide this tremendous lifeline to this project.
To our web and logo designers, Christopher Ritter and Chris Freitag, we don’t know how to thank you. You have developed the face of SnapImpact and we are honored to work with you. YOU ROCK!
Our volunteers. So many people. There were so many who helped us to get started and who have supported us over the time taken to get to this point, check out Andrew Hyde’s and Stepan Mazurov’s fabulous photos. Thanks for helping us get this off the ground. We could not have persevered without ya!
Most recently, we have had a kick ass software development crew – Ryan Schneider, Hassan Abdel-Rahman, Neil Simon, Tony Kay, Dave Angulo, Orn Kristjansson, Mark Chance, Eric Telingator, and Sue Uyetake. They have worked hard slinging code with only mediocre pizza and good beer to sustain them while keeping full time jobs and family happy. You are heroes.
The current rock star business development team includes Nicole Glaros, Josh Clauss, Katrina Florence, Rick Saltzman, Rich Grote, Brett Greene, Dan Hellman, Mark Haeg, Luke Tilsley, Kevin Cloughley, and Phong Le. You slaved away to develop the feature set, build out a PR and marketing plan, and continue to push our project forward (over a few bottles of excellent tequila). Thanks for doing this while keeping bosses and families happy along the way.
Finally, our data partners HandsOn Network and All For Good, are truly the engine of SnapImpact. They provide the data that fuels the volunteering process and we are proud to call them partners.
We are the luckiest startup nonprofit in the world. Thanks to everyone!
iVolunteer is now SnapImpact.org
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Ahh, what’s in a name? Well, with the case of iVolunteer, apparently about 5 other organizations. So in an effort to play nice in the sandbox, we’re officially moving from our iVolunteer branding to SnapImpact.org! With tequila consumption in abundance, user testing around Boulder, then a pretty good hangover the next day, the community selected the name SnapImpact (you know, like it’s a snap to make an impact….).
Our iPhone app will still maintain the iVolunteer name, but everything else will move to SnapImpact, including our Facebook account, the Wordpress plugin, the website, and our Twitter account. Links coming soon!
Welcome to SnapImpact.org!
Weekly Update: Ambithasiant Lunar Waneshaft Edition
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
[iVolunteer's project team meets every Tuesday at 6:00 pm at the Van Heyst Group's offices on 719 Walnut Street in Boulder, and they never ask for a plug, Godbless'em. We like to do it anyway, even if you'll never use them. Today's fact: They put on conferences. Not the Trekkies kind or the Furries kind, but more "innovative forums for global thought leaders and senior executives." So, in other words, not me. On to the update.]
First, we’ll take a brief moment so you can stand and applaud our three newest iVolunteerers – Dan Hellman, Rick Saltzman, and Brett Greene!
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Okay, okay, that’s plenty. They’re still noobs, after all. And they will be hazed this time! I will not be the only one!
A lot of news coming fast and furious out of the development (a.k.a. Nerd) team:
- We have a scriplet version of Interest Areas for Facebook.
- We are completing iPhone filter page development this week.
- Dave will complete ipconversion by Thu for Neil to continue WordPress plugin development.
- Dave fixed data feed and is optimizing to load quicker and will push to server this week.
- We have successfully figured out how to encabulate retroactively as this video explains. I think that means we can now travel through time, but I’ll double-check that with the techies, just to be sure.
If you understood what any of that meant, then faaaaantastic. In fact, if you’re in the Denver/Boulder area join our Facebook group, and come to our next working sesh. Especially if you like being more employable, because you’ll be able to learn all kinds of stuff about iPhoneDev, Facebook App Dev, and other things that now are closing $3 million funding rounds. Learn how to make three million dollars from geniuses. That’s what we’re offering, here.
On the BizDev side, I guess we don’t have that much to report, you know, except for, oh yeah, this little thing about us getting the call to be the featured iPhone partner for HandsOn Network, more or less the biggest volunteer-opportunity-finder in the country, and also for the National Conference on Volunteering and Service on June 22nd-24th. Which is totally splendiforous on the surface, yet means we have to do all this in the next 37 days.
Here’s a few ways you can help:
One (Less than a minute): Go vote for HandsOn Network, our new partner, to receive more money from Target. The more votes they get, the more resources they have to accomplish the dream of creating a global, mobile, and instant volunteering force to give aid in the largest and smallest of crises.
Two (a few minutes): Go to this page and enter iVolunteer in the “Designation” field for whatever amount you can give. Our meetings run on pizza and beer, which doesn’t cost more than $60 or so every meeting. Even a few bucks would totally go a long way.
Three (a couple hours): Join our Facebook group, and stay abreast (yes, I wrote that) of all upcoming meetings. Drop in sometime. Considering the fact that we’re now launching different parts of the service over the next month, culminating in a huge coming-out party. If you’ve ever wanted to learn Product Launching, PR, or Strategic Fundraising (or if you just want to pad your resume in those areas), we always need more big brains attached to little beer-and-pizza-holes to sit in. To repeat: We are launching a technology product nationally and need help from anyone who’s got a couple hours to spare! Be a part of something cool.
Plus, we’ll let you in on our time-traveling device. As soon as we get more prefamulated amulite and a flux capacitor.
We’ll be revealing another big surprise soon, so be sure to follow us on Twitter. In the meantime, stay classy, Colorado!
-Josh
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