Welcome to We Make Change 1.0

A message from our Co-Founders

 
 

We started with an idea💡

We Make Change started with an idea: to enable anyone, anywhere to give their skills to support their causes. Having tried countless volunteer platforms, we wanted to make change uber easy. Ever since, we’ve been figuring out how to do just that. We built our own online volunteer team, volunteered for 100s of hours, and launched our online volunteering platform. In two years, our community has grown to over 30,000 skilled volunteers supporting 800+ organisations, giving more than £2.5 million worth of skills and over 100,000 hours.


We’ve learned a heck of a lot 📚

To sum it up: 

  • Startups have the solutions: Impact startups have innovative, scalable solutions; but lack skills, time and funding to pay for a team. 

  • People have the skills: Individuals and employees have causes they care about, skills they can give and some time they can spare; but it’s hard to find volunteering opportunities that fit their causes, skills and schedule.

  • Connected we can change the world: When startups connect with the skills they need, together we can supercharge solutions to address the challenges we face. 


We’re evolving 🐣

Yet today, so many of us feel helpless to make the change we want to see. At a time when technology means we can get almost anything wherever we are, whenever we want; isn’t it crazy that we can click pizza, but we can’t combat climate change? We agree. That’s why we’re evolving. We call it We Make Change 1.0. We’ve always believed volunteering should be uber easy. After 4 years of learning by doing, we think we’ve almost got it. 


We’re making change uber easy 😎

Our purpose hasn’t changed, but how we phrase it has: We exist to enable anyone, anywhere to make change anytime. To do that we’re solely focusing on providing remote volunteering with impact startups. That means enabling startups to build remote volunteer teams to supercharge their growth, and enabling individuals and employees to give their skills to support their causes, wherever they are, whenever they want. It’s a win-win-win: for startups, people and planet. We call it the remote volunteering revolution.


We’re being ourselves 😉

We’re also evolving how we speak. Up to this point, we’ve been pretty dull - we’ll admit. We’ve followed many marketing ‘should do’s’ and not ‘what we want to do’s’. That’s why from now on we’ll be speaking like we want - embracing the cringe and shamelessly shouting about amazing peeps doing ChangeMaking things (while understanding we’re dealing with serious stuff). Because we know change is hard, but we also know a bit of fun can help the change go down.


We’re reflecting our community 🙌

Our flag has always meant to reflect the causes you care about. Every cause has a colour and now a flag too, so you can easily find startups you want to supercharge. We’ve always wanted our platform to reflect our community. That’s why we’re championing ChangeMakers on our site, socials and everywhere else. Change isn’t possible without the ChangeMakers, so we’ll be sharing the real change they make wherever we can.


Join the remote volunteering revolution 💻🚀🌎

We want to make change uber easy. That’s what We Make Change 1.0 is all about. And we’re only just getting started. That why it’s time you join the remote volunteering revolution.

We Make Change