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More and better matches. Less administration. More time for people.
Empower everyone with a smart, customized social platform and create space for support where needed. Inspire, activate, connect, strengthen, and expand your social base, and measure your value and impact.
The flexible all-in-1 solution
Choose accessible and secure tools, including a unique activation method and impact reporting, that activate, connect, strengthen, and expand the social foundation at the neighborhood level. Digital where possible, so that it remains personal where necessary.
A proven solution for, among other things, more voluntary work, younger and new volunteers, neighborhood assistance and care circles, informal care, social activities / social map, MDT and societal challenges as loneliness or security of existence.
Smart platform + app that saves time
What social challenge do you want to solve? From increasing and improving volunteering to building a strong social foundation. Choose from over 50 smart and proven features and build a customized platform that strengthens existing resources and expands where needed. Achieve more (for truly everyone) in less time, with any budget.
Inspire & activate everyone
Reach, inspire, and engage all target groups. Save time and focus on what truly works with surprising and well-thought-out activations: from IKIGAI volunteer testing and e-matching to ready-made communication campaigns (including SEO, ads, social, and local media).
Insight into your value and impact
The results and societal impact are measured in an automatic analysis and report that you can share with your network. This includes participant research and is scientifically validated by Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Remote colleagues
Our partners call us "the remote colleagues." We're here to make it a success: with a personal point of contact, a validated implementation process, training, networking events, and platform support (helpdesk, screening).
Stronger together
More than 80+ municipalities and 1.000.000 people connected.
We believe in the power of collaboration. That's why we connect everyone who wants to help with everyone who needs something at the neighborhood level – through a single, smart network. Residents, neighborhood initiatives, organizations, and businesses connected. Everyone's strengths supported and utilized. The result: well 10x the impact as other solutions.
Our partners
From communication to action and real impact
Our platforms have already proven to contribute to these societal challenges and social themes.
Volunteering
Join us with a reliable and proven platform that guarantees increased volunteer engagement. Since 2011, we've been working closely with more than 80 municipalities.
Result:
- More volunteers: 43% do more through the platform
- New target groups: 38% have never done volunteer work before
- Younger volunteers: half are younger than 4 years old
- Doubling the number of matches (up to 10x as much, depending on current tools)
Neighbor help
The safest platform for neighborly assistance thanks to a unique screening and monitoring method. Lower the barrier to help with an accessible platform where residents can easily ask for help, anonymity (but still be seen), unique visible and invisible screening and monitoring, friendly mediation, e-matching, and more.
Buddies
Integrate buddy projects, individual buddy requests, and social activities around meeting, or give them their own space on the platform.
Technical functionsVolunteer vacancy bank · 1:1 help (neighborhood help) · Help offer / talent bank · All sectors: from nature to sports, culture or healthcare and welfare · Setting goals (and competitions) · Measuring hours of effort · Micro & nano actions (from an afternoon to 5-minute challenges) · Skill-based projects · Events & social activities map · 35+ filter types and themes · Storytelling · Languages and auto translation · IKIGAI volunteer test · Automatic mail flow · Organizing events and more
Neighborhood connectivity means greater well-being, resilience, and a strong community that supports each other. Unlock the neighborhood's social capital by bringing everything the neighborhood has to offer together in one place:
- Define your 'neighborhood' (district or neighborhood at CBS level or hyperlocal)
- Link requests for help, volunteer work, offers of help, talent bank, social map (social activities) and training
- Show who is active (residents and (in)formal aid organisations) and connect an ambassador or neighbourhood connector.
Connect, find, participate and help.
Proven results:
- 54% have benefited from the platform new people get to know
- 45% feel more connected with his neighborhood or district
- 39% started helping through the platform
1 in 3 Dutch people aged 16 and older are caregiver. 9% of caregivers are severely overburdened. Support often comes too late because the options are unknown.
The care functionalities of our platforms support:
- Information: Plenty of space to display the local informal care program, including smart links to support or training. Or use our templates, which save a lot of work.
- Support overview: gather all the services available for informal care support in one place so that informal caregivers have an overview of the options and professionals can work more efficiently.
- Emotional support: the option to find a care buddy in your area (or become one – peer support).
- Practical help and respite care: both informal caregivers and professionals can safely submit a request for assistance, which will be automatically matched with the available support.
- Escalate to professional help or advice: easily forward to professional services where necessary.
Technical functionalities that improve informal care support: overview of support offered to residents and organisations · education (meetings, training, peer support) · screening & monitoring · helpdesk · 3 levels of support: ask yourself, ask for someone else, professionals on behalf of a client or organisation-wide · filters/categories: practical tasks and buddies · connections (widget, API) for care organisations and more.
Expertise / training
Promote expertise and strengthen the (in)formal network and collaboration in the region with a single smart solution for recruitment, matching, and training (from general e-learning to specific courses).
Result:
- 29% share knowledge more easily and calls his network expanded
- 28 % More expertise development
- 55% call the platform a necessary addition for recruiting new volunteers
MAS / MDT
A unique environment or integrated into everything: create a special place for young people or specific MAS or MDT projects.
- 22% of volunteers are under 25 years old
Choose & mix technical features around education: e-learning · meetings & courses · for volunteers, professionals or informal caregivers · register without or with an account · filters & free search · languages and auto translation · automatic reporting
Loneliness
The need for contact and connection is growing. An increase of 13% is expected towards 2040. Reducing loneliness means on average 40% to 50% less carecosts. Bring all supply and demand together for more and better matches (in less time and at lower costs).
- Buddy projects integrated, or just a 'place of one's own'
- 3 unique levels of support: independently (& safely), with clients or buddy projects
- Stimulate rethink: 66% solve their own question by doing volunteer work.
Integration (Z-route)
Status holders learn by doing, build a social network and discover their talents in a safe environment.
- Automatic matching of talent to suitable volunteer activities
- More efficient & Family constellation because participants can work independently
- Smart translation and monitoring, less administration and control
Living at home longer (care)
Reduce the pressure on healthcare by making it easier for residents to safely submit their requests for help, making it easier for loved ones to assist, and improving collaboration and matching in the neighborhood with (in)formal care organizations and professionals.
- Social map: overview of neighbors and (in)formal services, activities and support
- Accessible and safe ask for help with 3 support levels & unique screening and monitoring
- Signaling and refer for professional help
Join NLvoorelkaar: 35% more connections
Did you know that you can connect your platform to NLvoorelkaar.nl? NLvoorelkaar.nl is the largest volunteer platform in the Netherlands. By connecting intelligently, you immediately benefit from scale, visibility, and additional results—without any extra work.
What does this yield?
- On average 35% more connections/matches
- Regional organizations do not need to create and manage an additional profile
- National visibility and PR from NLvoorelkaar automatically attract new participants to your platform
This way you combine the best of both worlds: local direction and context, with the power of a national ecosystem.
Partners speak out
Volunteer centers, welfare organizations, and volunteer points throughout the Netherlands are using our platforms to build a connected society with broad-based well-being benefits.
Curious why they chose us? And what their experiences are? Watch the video:
“You are truly our remote colleagues”
As a social enterprise, we prioritize social responsibility. In everything we do, and how we do it. Together, we achieve more. Combined with a dose of Brabantian conviviality, doing good becomes not only better, but also a lot more fun! There's nothing we're prouder of than when our partners consider us colleagues.
Own unique impact methodology since 2011
Age is just a number, but experience doesn't lie. Since 2011, we've developed and continuously improved an impact methodology together with our partners. The result:
1. The most enjoyable implementation process
Not only reliable, predictable, and without hidden costs, but also super interesting, educational, fast, flexible, and smooth. With one of our experts as your designated contact, you're guaranteed top results and a fantastic time.
2. The most reach and activation, in the least time
Sophisticated, ready-to-use campaigns, scripts, and materials for not only a flying start but also continuous results. Reach everyone, anytime, anywhere.
3. Thought of everything
Security, privacy, digital accessibility, availability, maintenance, reporting, research, and more. Rely on our experience and that of our network. You don't have to reinvent the wheel (alone)!
Meet our experts
We work day in, day out to make a difference for our partners. From technical questions to impact analyses, communications plans, and further development ideas.
Would you like to explore whether our solution is suitable for your task? In a 30-minute conversation, we'd love to hear about your challenge, provide a brief introduction to our organization, and give you a mini-demonstration.
Frequently asked questions
Looking for the best volunteer platform, volunteer vacancy bank, neighbor assistance platform, community platform, or management system?
It's no wonder you'll probably have to search quite a bit, there are so many words just for the answer ;-). To help you get started, we've collected the most frequently asked questions and answers below.
The easiest way to find out whether we are a good match is with a no-obligation introduction with a demo.
We will discuss with each other:
- Your assignment: what you are looking for, need or dream of.
- What we do
- Whether we are a match: click, similarity, differences
- Expected results and investment (from €5.000, depending on the number of residents, functions and services, so that there is a fair solution for every municipality and budget)
Curious? Come join us for a cup of coffee or impactTea in Breda, or online:
We want to avoid a "We from WC Duck" moment. But it's a familiar struggle: How do you choose a platform? And what's the difference with other platforms?
You can check off these points with us (and it will also be a handy checklist for your search):
✔️ One connecting platform for everyone: suitable for all residents, (neighbourhood) initiatives and the (in)formal network: from sports and culture to nature, healthcare and well-being.
✔️ Good implementation: clear process, extensive training and guidance, live within 3-4 months on average
✔️ Completely unique and tailor-made: custom-made and completely in your own house style and brand name
✔️Flexibly expandable: modules such as neighborhood assistance, volunteer work, social activities card, training and events
✔️ Safest choice: unique screening method with smart screening + experienced screening team + community review system
✔️ Smart technology that activates and saves time: proactively matching supply and demand, activating, reporting and thus saving a lot of time
✔️ Inspiring network: Learn from more than 80 municipalities and organizations that came before you and join the network where we share knowledge, experiences and innovation power
✔️ Proven results: data-driven and co-developed with the target group, with proven results
✔️ Real-time reporting and insight: direct overview of all results, hours worked and social impact and effects via dashboards or CSV export
✔️Good findability: SEO and GEO optimization and links with other websites (from local sites to NLvoorelkaar)
✔️Ready-made activations: such as Summer Book and December promotions, gamification and personal impact to reach and activate new target groups in no time
✔️No technical work: we take care of all management, maintenance and further development
✔️Complies with laws and regulations: from e-privacy and GDPR to data protection (DPIA, PEN test), digital accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and rules regarding voluntary work
✔️Support & Help Center: for both participants and administrators, including manuals, integrated help center and smart user journeys with the right information at the right time
✔️ Transparent in costs: one clear rate, shared costs and no hidden or unexpected costs
✔️All expertise in-house: from practical thinking to strategic advice and from project management to communication to data and technology, always with a huge dose of enthusiasm and energy
Want to know more?
A no-obligation introduction provides ample opportunity to discuss your questions, wishes, and ideas in more detail.
To meet every need, we've made both the platform and the service incredibly flexible. This means you get a customized solution without the associated costs. But that also means your quote is always personalized.
Features
For the platform you can choose from:
- Own house style and name
- Vacancy bank
- Neighborhood assistance/1:1 help
- Assistance offer (also called talent pool or volunteer pool)
- IKIGAI volunteer test
- Training: academy with meetings and e-learning
- Social activities / map
- Warm mediation with logbook function
- Languages: Dutch, English, German and Arabic (at the moment)
- Integrations: (web)app, widgets for local organizations, API, social media
- Help Center and Screening
And then we haven't even mentioned the basic features included in every platform, such as smart e-matching, automated user journeys per role, an impact dashboard, time tracking, and impact measurement.
With over 100 unique features, there's just not enough space here to tell you everything. We'd be happy to give you a tour in a free, no-obligation demo. There's plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discover whether our solution fits your needs, wishes, and dreams.
Services
You can also tailor our service level to your needs: from advertising and SEO to data analysis and helpdesk.
Cost estimate & demo
We believe it is important that there is a fair solution for every municipality, challenge and budget.
We're happy to develop a social impact case for your investment. We'll compare the expected results and social impact with the costs of the functionalities and your intended use – this way, you stay in control of your investment.
Curious about the options? Book an introductory meeting:
Want to know more?
Questions, ideas, a short demo, or exploring the possibilities together? We'd love to talk with you!
