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Help us restore the world's forests through football
ORGANIZATION: Football for Forests Non-profit Kft
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
The Football for Forests app engages soccer fans to support restoration of the world's tropical forests. Fans choose their favourite club and commit a small donation for each goal their team scores. We think this can be a global thing, reaching millions of football fans to bring a significant flow of funds to forest restoration. However, we need your help! We built an app with funding from the German government's GIZ, launched in summer 2023. But we've not hit the sweet spot with the app's design and way of engagement. So we need a rethinking, redesign and rebuild. We are looking for experts in UX, UI, gamification and online community building who would relish the challenge to engage football fans and contribute towards tropical forest restoration. With the World Cup 2026 coming up in the US, Canada and Mexico, it is the perfect moment to improve on what we have and be in a good place to make the best of this opportunity.
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About Football for Forests Non-profit Kft
Location:
Villanyi ut 47, Budapest, 1118, HU
Mission Statement
Football for Forests uses the power of football to restore tropical forest. Fans sign up to support their favourite club and donate a small amount of money for each goal their team scores. The money goes to tropical forest restoration in the Amazon. When we talk about forest destruction we often measure it in football pitches. We want to turn that round and use football pitches as the measure of forest restoration. As football is the world's biggest community reaching 4 billion people, and the world's forests desperately need their help.
Description
We were set up by Planet League and Climate Focus. Planet League uses the power of football to mobilise fans to live greener and Climate Focus are experts in tropical forest protection and restoration with over 20 years experience working in the Colombian Amazon. We want to create a worldwide initiative, reaching football fans the world over, to help in the vitally important restoration of the world's forest. We got funding from the German Government's GIZ and launched our beta app summer 2023. However, after a year of experience we have realised that our app still needs a bunch of work (user research, testing, rethinking, redesign etc) to make it fly. We believe that the underlying idea is strong but our execution has not hit the mark. So we are reaching out for volunteer experts in app development, UX and UI, user-centred design, and community building, to help us get this right.
We have already begun restoration of an area the size of 56 football pitches and are working with a cool local charity in Colombia, Tiempo de Juego which works with underprivileged kids and helps them find their way through football. The challenge is enormous and we have to scale up drastically - but that will only happen when the users' experience is top notch.
Football for Forests is a non-for-profit organisation.
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
October 29, 2024
SKILLS
- Product Development
- Web Design / UX
- Mobile Programming
- Software Development
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Public Groups
- Private Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- We think this is a six month project but we'd need your guidance on this.
- There are a few stages to the project. Evaluation of what we have; research to determine what improvements and changes to make; iterative redesign and rebuild. We are building a team for this.
Private Group Details
- Group Size Range 1 - 50+
- Event can be held virtually
- Donation Requested