solution

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

Open Social puts user experience and ease-of-use first — from making sign-up simple to creating seamless workplace tool integrations:

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…

Solve your key online volunteer challenges

Learn how to attract, activate and retain your volunteers with an online community. Simply download our free Online Volunteer Community Guide!

We've made it easy for you to compare our software

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

This mission-driven community brings together nutritionists, farmers, businesses, government and citizens by giving them a platform for connecting, collaborating and creating change.

“We imagine a system where food experts and entrepreneurs come together to tackle our most complex food challenges.”

Making developmental funding more transparent

IATI

With IATI Connect, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has created an online hub for their online communities to explore data, exchange knowledge, build new networks and connect with a multitude of stakeholders.

“IATI is much more than numbers and data. At the heart of the initiative are its people.”

Creating Pathways to Sustainable Development

SDG Philanthropy

The SDG Philanthropy platform is a global UNDP community dedicated to solving sustainable development goals (SDGs). With the help of Open Social, it builds the bridge between the UN, governments and the private sector by encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

“We are an online collaboration platform that provides access to information on what partners are doing, real-time data on relevant SDGs, and events and solutions that funders and others are supporting. We add curated, targeted information every week, with a growing, connected audience.”

Connecting Experts during a Crisis

BIO

BIO Coronavirus Hub is a public platform open to anyone in need and anyone who can help with COVID-19 research and response. This hub connects stakeholders to help fight the pandemic on all fronts.

“It will take the great scientists of this industry working together across the globe to win the battle against an invisible enemy. Creating a central location to match need requests with availability helps research and development programs continue.”

Connecting students, alumni and staff

Holmesglen Institute

Holmesglen Institute uses Open Social to provide students with the tools for learning and living, and deepening relationships between the students, staff, and alumni.

“We want students to feel that this is their space to ask questions, form study or social groups, and share placement experiences.”

mobilizing 60,000 volunteers

Greenpeace

Greenwire is a global online community created with Open Social that connects thousands of Greenpeace staff and volunteers around the world. The platform supports their active contribution to the goals Greenpeace seeks in its campaigns.

“Greenwire is increasing Greenpeace’s reach and amplifying the power of our volunteers every day. It’s a key element of a future in which the lines between online and offline activism are further blurred.”

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.

Are you interested? Let us give you an expert tour of our software

See what Open Social will look like with your branding and customized to align with your goals and use cases.

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4.7 / 5

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