Things here at Jumo are moving quickly as we begin the transition to the GOOD platform.
Today, we are excited to announce that we are open-sourcing the product of our labors since Jumo’s inception.
The technology behind Jumo.com is now available andopento all, including data and functionality designed to connect individuals with the issues and organizations they care about. You can access the Jumo codebase here.
We’ve long been committed to making it as easy as possible for everyday people to contribute to the world in meaningful ways. Today, the community will have access to functionality that enables users to create and curate content and actions around more than 250 issue areas, from human trafficking to childhood obesity. Jumo’s Solr-based search application provides users with advanced search capabilities to easily navigate all organization and issue content.
And for organizations and developers interested in using and redistributing our source code, we’ve included a dozen sample organizations and a complete set of all issue-specific data on Jumo.com.
Tell us what you’re building at contact@jumo.com and stay tuned for more on the Jumo and GOOD platform!
I’m thrilled to share with you today the exciting news that Jumo is combining forces with GOOD to create a powerful online content and social engagement platform. This is an enormous opportunity for our talented teams to build a single community of like-minded people and mission-driven organizations.
When we started Jumo over a year and half ago, we had a simple mission: to use technology to help everyday people have a meaningful impact on the world. We’ve long believed that the best way to facilitate positive change is to connect individuals to outstanding organizations working on the ground in our communities and around the world.
Today, we are one step closer to fulfilling this goal. GOOD brings to the table a vibrant community of three million monthly users who read and interact with their dynamic content. Jumo brings a network of motivated activists and nearly 15,000 socially driven organizations.
The marriage of these two organizations lays the foundation for us to form the most extensive network of people, organizations, and opportunities in the social sector. Nowhere else on the web will you find as many committed people or high-performing organizations as you will on the GOOD/Jumo platform.
As our teams combine, you will see the emergence of a single, vibrant online network on GOOD.is, pending regulatory approval. I will be teaming up with GOOD’s CEO, Ben Goldhirsh, to help grow GOOD and Jumo through an important stage of development. And in the spirit of our heritage as a non-profit, we will be open-sourcing our own codebase to enable other social entrepreneurs to use our progress thus far for their own endeavors.
We’re looking forward to continuing our work in pursuit of global change over the years to come. Stay tuned!
We’ve been working on changes to the site based on user feedback, and we’d like to hear what you think! Our new look focuses on high-quality content and simplified design.
What we heard:
People can access financial information on sites like Guidestar and Charity Navigator and in-depth information on organizations’ websites, but it’s hard to quickly understand what an organization actually does.
Jumo newsfeed content was sometimes interesting, but not always relevant or useful.
There are a lot of organizations on the site (over 14,000!) and it’s hard for people to know where and how to dig in.
Once people know they’re interested in supporting an organization, they’re not sure what they can actually do to help.
What we’ve done:
Designed a simplified organization “discovery” process: Located on the homepage and accessible via the Account dropdown on your Jumo profile, this will help you find some of the best groups working on the issues you care about. For a subset of our most popular, timely, and critical issues, we highlight a small set of organizations who are doing great work and make it easy for you to learn more about them.
Written a concise, layman’s description of quality organizations and issues: We’ve started by profiling dozens of organizations and issues, and we’ll quickly increase the number of these expanded profiles, if users find them useful. We’ve chosen a variety of groups and issues to highlight in this first pilot.
Put together a set of actions that you can do today: For those of you who are eager to have an impact today, clicking the “Help Out” button on any expanded page will give you information on 3 actions you can take today to make a difference. Even if you’re not yet ready to do something today, choosing to commit now will indicate to the community and to us that you’d like to be involved in future opportunities.
This is all a work-in-progress. To learn more, visit our FAQ page. We hope these changes provide you with the knowledge you need to begin or deepen your engagement in these causes.
Please let us know what you think in the comments section below! We’re excited to harness the ideas and energy of our 100,000+ Jumo members to make this a site that truly enables you to accelerate the pace of positive global change.
A big thanks to the Jumo community for contributing to our campaign to help World Food Programme provide life-saving food to Somalis who have fled drought-stricken areas. We raised over $17,000 from more than 470 supporters, far exceeding our final goal of $10,000. We initially set out to raise enough funds to feed 100 malnourished children for a month; your donations will enable WFP to feed an additional 1,150 children for a month.
Thank you for donating, for spreading the word among your networks, and for showing your support to WFP.
To share with you the impact your donation is making, our friends at WFP sent us this video:
Of course, though the campaign is over, there is still much to do to end the crisis in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. Earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama approved sending the region an additional $105 million in aid for urgent humanitarian relief.
WFP, with your support, is continuing their emergency operations. Here is the latest from them:
“We’re aiming to feed more than 11 million people across the Horn of Africa region. We’ve expanded our programs in Somalia to help malnourished children under age 5.
We’ve airlifted food supplies into Mogadishu to feed around 30,000 children for one month.
We started a series of nine airlifts of highly nutritious biscuits to Mombasa, in Kenya — enough to feed 1.6 million people for a day.”
Given the size and scope of the crisis, more support is still needed. If you’d like to make an additional donation to WFP, you can do so here. You can also learn how to provide support in other ways here.
Thank you again! We’ve learned a lot from this campaign, and we are looking forward to incorporating what we’ve learned into our work. We know that the Jumo community is eager and ready to help and engage with organizations like WFP that are doing life-saving work. We will keep you informed of ways to continue having an impact on this crisis as well as on the other significant challenges that great nonprofits are taking on.
Video from WFP’s Martin Penner in Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. WFP is currently working to help the thousands of famine victims who have fled Somalia.
Here at Jumo, we’ve been following news of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Horn of Africa.The region’s worst drought in over 60 years has led to a famine that is threatening the lives of millions. More than 11 million people are in need of food; tens of thousands have already died. Somali mothers have had to abandon their dying children as they flee drought-stricken areas on the “roads of death.” We want to help. And we know Jumo users like you do too. We recently spoke with the team at the World Food Programme, whose workers are on the ground and are already feeding 1.5 million people in Somalia. But without the needed funds, they can’t reach the millions more that urgently need food and care. Jumo is raising $1,500 to allow WFP to feed an additional 100 children this month. That’s $15 to feed a child for one month. We only need 100 people to chip in $15 to reach our goal. Can you give $15 today? To learn more about WFP’s work in this crisis, read updates from WFP here and follow the Executive Director of WFP on Twitter @josettesheeran. Our thoughts are with those suffering from the famine and the aid workers who are working tirelessly on-the-ground.
Every day in developing countries like South Sudan, hospitals are unable to provide life-saving medicine and medical care to patients in need. Often in isolated, rural areas, hospitals without the necessary medicine or medical supplies are forced to send patients on foot to a neighboring community. This can take days the patient doesn’t have.
Doc2Dock is working to change that by providing a hospital in South Sudan with communications technology linking them to the medical community in the U.S. Doctors at the recipient hospital will be able to make supply requests and work directly with doctors in the U.S. to diagnose patients.
Today on Jumo, you can help save lives. With your pledge, Doc2Dock will make it possible for a South Sudan hospital to connect with the medical community in the U.S. and provide better care for their patients.
Doc2Dock is 2 days and only $235 away from completing their campaign! Pledge now and help them reach their goal.
Today in Ethiopia, over 100,000 women are living with a debilitating condition called obstetric fistula. Ostracized by their communities, disowned by their husbands, and unable to work, these women are forced to exist on the margins of society.
What if you could change all that by providing fistula survivors with an education, job training, and start up capital to run their own businesses?
Today on Jumo, you can. Healing Hands of Joy works to rehabilitate fistula survivors through economic empowerment. After leaving HHOJ’s program, women are able to successfully reintegrate into society, educate other women about fistula, and run their own businesses. HHOJ is raising funds to build a new facility that will more than quadruple their capacity!
Learn more about how you can give a second chance to fistula survivors on Jumo.
Earlier this week, we shared the launch of our first ever Jumo campaigns and are already hearing from many of you eager to get involved.
In the coming weeks, we’re excited to introduce you to some inspiring organizations working to improve lives around the world.
In one of our first ever campaigns, we’re working with Partners in Health to build a new home for a Twa family in Rwanda. An impoverished people, the Twa have an average life expectancy of just 30 years. Their grass huts provide little protection from the region’s harsh elements.
As the rainy season approaches, Partners in Health is working to build homes for all 39 families in the village of Nyamicucu in Northern Rwanda. Each home costs $5,500, which provides furnishings, agricultural support, health insurance, and school fees for children.
Taking a look at your Jumo top stories is not always the most uplifting of experiences.There are stories of families scraping to get by, people in need of vaccinations or access to education, women struggling for their basic rights—there is no shortage of challenges across our world. The natural next question for most of us is: What can I do to help? Today we’re launching Jumo campaigns, designed to make it easy for you to meaningfully contribute to the causes important to you.
Unlike some of the fundraising tools on the Internet today, Jumo campaigns have a few distinct characteristics:
Your participation in a campaign is shared with your community on Jumo.You can easily see which of your friends support the campaign.Your activism is integrated into your Jumo and Facebook profiles so that you can share your work with your friends and family.
An organization receives no money until the campaign meets its fundraising goal.In the case that the campaign does not reach its goal, it unfortunately does not get funded.
For each campaign, you as a donor will always know how your money will be used.In some cases, the campaign will send you a gift as a token of your support.
Over the next few days, each Jumo user will receive an email profiling one of our beta campaigns, from a group working to provide health care and job training to women in Ethiopia to a group connecting doctors in South Sudan to doctors in the United States. You’ll hear the stories of those who need your help most and can contribute directly, share with friends, and receive updates about their work. Stay tuned for updates here on the blog, Facebook and Twitter. And please feel free to give us feedback – we love to know what you think!
Founded in February 2010, Jumo is a social network connecting individuals and organizations working for global change. Leveraging connection technologies, Jumo enables everyday people to find, follow and support those working toward solutions in their community and in regions around the world.
Jumo is a 501(c)(3) organization founded and directed by Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign. For more information, visit www.jumo.com
