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Siti Mashitah Shamsul‐Anuar
Vincent Chen
Brittany Caroline Moore
Scott E. Brown
Pay It Forward UMD
Helping Terps Help Others
Problem Motivation
• Benefits of Volunteering
• New life experiences
• Resume building
• Establishing career networks
• Enhancing self image
• Building confidence
• Make new friends
Problem Description• Current Statistics For UMD
• 18,800 Students participating
• About 122,330 volunteer hours
• That’s about 6.5 hours per student
• Includes required volunteer work
• Student Issues• Don’t know where to
start• Difficult to fit in with
schedule
Track Your Involvement
• Features:
• User Profile
• Visibility settings
• Readability
• Current work
Target Users
• Primary User Group
• University of Maryland Students
• Secondary User Group
• Volunteer Organizations
User Research
• Survey students
• Interview volunteer organization leaders
• How do they currently connect to students?
References• LCSL Quick Facts. Retrieved February 18, 2013 from: http://
thestamp.umd.edu/student_involvement/lcsl/about_lcsl/quick_facts
• Volunteering 2010. (2011, January 28). Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110128.htm
• Volunteermatch. (2012, October 19). Retrieved February 25, 2013 from http://www.volunteermatch.org/
• Francis, J. E. (2011). The functions and norms that drive university student volunteering. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 16(1), 1-12. Retrieved February 18, 2013 from http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f674fff7-3859-43a5-b4e7-f386c20428b2%40sessionmgr112&vid=2&hid=121