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Mobilize and activate your volunteers to drive real-world change
with Open Social's
Volunteer Engagement Platform
learn how to attract, activate and retain

Trusted by 1000+ organizations





Easily manage groups of volunteers
Manage small and large volunteer communities with membership management tools and easy integrations with organizational systems

Activate and engage
your volunteers
Engage volunteers with purpose-built tools and features to create content, collaborate in real-time and participate in discussions

Drive real-world change locally and globally
Let your volunteers create local groups and organize events around the world. Create workshops and generate impactful content
See how Open Social helps your organization and empowers your volunteers

“The Open Social platform, and especially the ideation feature we’ve built on top of it, is disrupting the way we create bottom-up policy advice in an international network of ‘open think tanks’. We’re very happy with the collaboration so far and look forward to a future where global challenges are solved by a connected global civil society.”
– Jonas Nakonz
Lead Policy Kitchen, Foraus Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy
Get an out-of-the-box solution
to manage your volunteers in one place
Get an out-of-the-box solution to manage your volunteers

activity & engagement
Tools built for sharing,
communication and collaboration
Open Social gives you all the social features you need for members to share more with one another:
- Likes, Comments, Private Messaging and Mentions
- Rich user-profiles where members can express themselves
- Activity Streams for latest news, events, comments and other content
- Groups with unique landing pages membership roles and community spaces
- Discussions, Events, Birthdays, Courses, Quizzes and more engagement tools

growth & retention
Make your platform
easy and enjoyable to use
- Custom branding, colors and look-and-feel to make members feel at home
- Social logins and Single Sign-on for higher platform adoption and repeat usage
- Seamless integration with existing organizational systems or workplace tools like Microsoft Office 365
- Simple, modern and user-friendly platform interface for site managers and members

collaboration and content creation
Bottom up value creation
by your community
Open Social lets your members generate valuable and impactful content — encouraging collaboration and communication with purpose-built community tools and extensions:
- Crowd Innovation lets your community generate solutions to complex real-world challenges
- Courses lets you train members and empower your community
- Real-time collaboration lets members work together and co-author content
- Discussions creates media-rich spaces for sharing knowledge & expertise

KPIs & analytics
Measure and demonstrate
the value of your community
Open Social gives you rich community analytics on every piece of content to help you make data-driven decisions:
- Forms and surveys for qualitative feedback from your community
- Customizable dashboards for at-a-glance overview of important community activities
- Platform analytics measure content engagement, membership activity, platform adoption
- Export analytics as spreadsheets

We know it’s challenging
to find the best software…
Learn how to attract, activate and retain your volunteers with an online community. Simply download our free Online Volunteer Community Guide!
We’ve taken a lot of the guesswork out. We have carefully crafted 60+ points of comparison to show how our community software compares with other products available on the market.
Join the 1000+ communities
making their story share-ific!
Creating Canada’s First Circular Food Economy
Our Food Future
Making developmental funding more transparent
IATI
Creating Pathways to Sustainable Development
SDG Philanthropy
Connecting Experts during a Crisis
BIO
Connecting students, alumni and staff
Holmesglen Institute
mobilizing 60,000 volunteers
Greenpeace
Our team works closely with you
to make sure you are successful

Open Social helps you
every step of the way
Setting up
We deploy your platform and help you easily customize your content.
Onboarding
We provide concierge onboarding and make sure you know how to use the platform and our features.
Support
We have in-depth documentation to guide you, as well as helpful customer and tech support.
Updates
We are always working on updates to improve our software and add exciting new tools for you to use.
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