Conservation Innovation Awards & br’dg

Emerging from hibernation

Originally posted by chrysteenaillustration

We’re coming out of hibernation, and we’re pretty excited!

In the last 2 weeks we made the first steps to pick up where we left off last year, and let Volunteer Impact emerge from the ground and sprout back to life.

It began with an opportunity.

The work I’ve been doing with Lifehack has led me to spend a lot of time at Massey University in Wellington, NZ, where there’s a lot of savvy young design students who are keen to work with social enterprises. About a month back, I was approached by the team at br’dg who wanted to connect more of these students with interesting young businesses in the city. I applied, and Volunteer Impact was accepted for the inaugural cohort!

I was delighted to find that several students were eager to jump aboard, so I am delighted to now be working with Maia, Jacob & Dayna on a project to bring to life the research and early design work we’d put in, in the form of our next version of the app for Environmental Restoration projects.

Watch this space!

And then there was Innovation

I’m delighted to say that we’ve also entered two projects into the WWF Conservation Innovation Awards in 2015. We put forward the visual reporting system we’re building, as well as the feature which a lot of people told us they wanted, which was the potential to capture pictures and videos of a project site.

We’d love your support — the awards begin with a crowd voting platform to establish popularity and originality:

**Voting has now closed**

VOTE HERE: https://wwf-nz.crowdicity.com/post/157294

AND VOTE HERE: https://wwf-nz.crowdicity.com/post/157408

Sadly you have to do a quick sign up process — use your social accounts to jump through this quickly.

We stand to be in to win a $25′000 grant to put the tools in the hands of community conservation champions, so we’d love your support. Here’s a snapshot of our ideas:

So there we are — coming out of Southern Hemisphere Winter, and launching into Spring with some good news.

We’ll keep you updated with how we fare over the coming weeks!

Originally published at blog.volunteerimpact.co.