How to support social impact organizations in Boldare?

Recently, Boldare has joined the group of Tech To The Rescue partners. TTTR is a voluntary movement of tech companies to help social impact organizations implement digital solutions to scale up their influence. They believe there are not enough technology resources in the social world, but we can unlock them if companies contribute to pro bono projects. Does it speak to you? Boldare people chime in with this idea!

At Boldare, we speak our truth loud and proud and are not afraid to act bravely. Helping social impact organizations in a pro bono way requires courage, future-oriented thinking, and a big heart. That’s why we’ve jointly decided to support TTTR and contribute to the upcoming market shift.

Boldare gathers people who think about the future and want to create solutions that solve real problems. They wish to help others and use their technical resources to enact meaningful change. That’s the reason we build products with a great dose of empathy and boost the social impact of organizations whose aims are close to our values and worldview. If building products with a mission is essential for you, you would be a perfect fit to Boldare. Keep reading and get to know our pro bono journey!

What is “Tech To The Rescue” movement?

Let’s start from a little amount of data. Currently, TTTR has about 35 projects in 12 countries. Their work has a chance to impact 900,000 people around the world. They filter social impact organizations and choose those who have minimal technical competencies but have the time to invest in the desired product. Next, the movement’s partners decide which institutions they wish to collaborate with.

We can say that TTTR makes a kind of bridge between two seemingly alien worlds and makes it possible for future-oriented tech companies to have a real impact on society. So, once Boldare had joined TTTR’s network partners, we could choose the organization that we would like to support, and then start to cooperate with them.

TTTR has prepared a special backlog for Boldare and allow us to look through the available products to work on. In the first place, Boldare people decided to help the Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Foundation.

At Tech To The Rescue, we make it possible for a dialogue between tech companies and non-profit organizations to begin. This should lead to a new market standard that will build a bridge over a technological gap in the social good sector. Innovation is needed to scale up positive social and ecological impacts. Our platform is the first step towards it. We believe that building GOOD TECH is no longer enough. Building TECH solutions for GOOD that can address the most pressing problems of today’s world is what will distinguish industry Leaders from the rest. — says Daniel di Giusto, Co-founder & Head of Community at TTTR.

How does Boldare team support the Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Foundation?

The essential need of the Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Foundation was for a platform that could become a solid base. The needed solution should allow the Foundation to manage content. A platform will also contain a necessary module for fundraising. Boldare team met the expectations and wanted to help this social impact organization to spread their forces.

So far, Boldare’s team has conducted a Product Discovery workshop with Dziewuchy Dziewuchom. The main goal of this two-day-long event was to establish both the business and product goals and assess the hypothesis that required validating. At Boldare, this is our usual way of preparing and gathering information before building a product.

Through the workshop, we managed to determine the target group, the platform’s key functionalities, and the business goals. We also had time to decide how we want to work, which tools and frameworks will fit our needs, and what is crucial for the product.

It is worth saying that the Product Discovery workshop was held stationary. We’ve considered it crucial to gather all involved and build a friendly, chamber and open atmosphere. During the workshop, the Boldare team acted as a group of consultants. Above all, we carefully listened to our contractors to deeply conceive their specified needs. While choosing the best technology, we took into account the financial aspect and all the circumstances that Dziewuchy Dziewuchom has described to us. We fit the offered solution to their problem to deliver a valuable and usable product in future.

The two-day-long Product Discovery workshop was an interesting and inspirational experience for the members of the Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Foundation. All the way through, we felt that we were in good hands. Boldare provided a team of professionals that recognized and diagnosed our needs perfectly. What is more, Boldare people are extremely open and caring. We’ve noticed that we speak the same language from the very beginning. Inclusivity and equality are our mutual values. The trust - built by Boldare - helped us to go through the verification of our ideas and visions. These two days also let us look at the Foundation from a distance and think about the future. We’re honestly grateful for this expertise. - comments Anna Berdowska, Social Media and Fundraising Specialist in Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Foundation.

Among the workshop, the Boldare team prepared for Dziewuchy Dziewuchom two design systems with other mood boards to select. Speaking about the interesting facts, we have also conducted a webinar about digital products’ accessibility. We felt that, just like we do, our contractor cares about inclusivity. Thus, we decided to raise this subject and expand it in the next steps of the development process.

Now, after the Product Discovery workshop, we’re working on proposing the best technical solutions that will answer all the Foundation’s needs. We need to act agile throughout the whole product-building process. It eases implementation of further improvements at the later stages of creating the solution.

We share values and it builds motivation!

We found the common ground with the Foundation that allowed us to act together effectively. Things that we especially appreciate in our cooperation are the professional approach, openness to new ideas and processes and organizational maturity of the Foundation.

Thanks to the open dialogue, we managed to implement a non-obvious solution. We designated the product owner on the Boldare side. Usually, a product owner is a role that assumes the client’s representative. Sometimes, when the client’s team has a lack of time or capacity, we offer such an alternative solution. In such cases, mutual trust is essential.

I am always excited about building products that have a real impact on reality and society. At Boldare, we realize products in the special cycle of stages that we called Full Cycle Product Development. I believe both social impact and unique building process make our work even more precious — for us and the client. — mentions Karla Sutil, Process Guide in Boldare.

Members of the Boldare team that took part in the Product Discovery workshop with Dziewuchy Dziewuchom speak coherently: “the great thing about our crew is that we share common values”. It was their decision to join this particular team and work on the specific pro bono product. As a result, they cooperate with people with a similar point of view, which spreads their wings and builds motivation.

What is crucial, some members of this crew came from our bench. For the record, you should know that the bench at Boldare is not scary at all! Even if you face a short downtime period, you will still have an opportunity to work on an intriguing pro bono projects. Stagnation? Developers at Boldare don’t know what it is.

Acting for charity in the IT sector

We believe that helping great ideas to scale up is valuable. If we have the chance to act for a charity or boost the social impact of foundations or movements, we engage and contribute to them. Apart from joining TTTR and helping Dziewuchy Dziewuchom, what other CSR projects have we participated in the last year?

• Supporting the “Kosmos dla Dziewczynek” Foundation by sending one hundred books to libraries. “Nie obraź się, ale” was written by Kasia Mecinski, and it talks about pressure among women.
• Promoting the campaign “Ubrania do oddania” that supports a second life for clothes.
• Helping students from Politechnika Wrocławska to build a sports app.
• Sharing our workspace with students to enable them to create underwater drones.
• Mentoring at Best Design Week – an event that helps students to start their design adventure.
• Auctioning off our scrum workshops at WOŚP 2021.
• Supporting Szlachetna Paczka.
• Sharing knowledge via various workshops, webinars, podcasts, conferences, and interviews.

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