Turn the needs you cannot meet into a clear way for your community to help.
Mobilize puts an unmet need in front of the volunteers, donors, businesses, and neighbors who can act on it — then keeps track of what is promised, provided, and still outstanding.
Your organization provides essential support. But some needs require the community.
A housing program helps a family find a home, but they still need furniture. A school identifies students who would benefit from reading support, but needs more mentors. A nonprofit has a program ready to serve people, but lacks volunteers, supplies, or specialized expertise.
At the same time, people want to help. They may not know what is needed, whether their contribution would be useful, or how to get involved. Requests become scattered across social posts, newsletters, forms, and personal conversations.
The willingness to help is already there — it needs a clear path.
One clear community opportunity
Social posts
Forms & inboxes
Personal conversations
FurnitureMentorsSuppliesExpertise
Mobilize connects the needs your organization understands with the people and resources your community can offer.
Ways Your Community Help
Time
Turn willingness into participation through mentoring, tutoring, event support, meal preparation, and practical assistance.
Mentoring
Tutoring
Event support
Meal preparation
Practical assistance
Talent
Connect your organization with people offering technology, trade, financial, creative, coaching, or other professional expertise — subject to appropriate qualifications and oversight.
Technology
Trades
Financial
Creative
Coaching
Treasure
Make specific requests for funding, supplies, furniture, food, clothing, equipment, facilities, and sponsorship.
Funding
Supplies
Furniture
Food
Clothing
Equipment
Facilities
Sponsorship
The platform
Tools that connect needs, people, and follow-through.
From defining the opportunity to recording what was fulfilled, Mobilize keeps each step connected to the people responsible for it.
01
01 — Define
Needs and Opportunity Management
Make each request specific enough to act on.
Mobilize helps your team turn a general need into a structured opportunity. Instead of “Our program needs help,” explain the role, resource, or contribution that would make a difference — connected with an organization and a coordinator responsible for the response.
Use Mobilize to
Define the need: what is needed, why it matters, and who will benefit.
Clarify participation: quantities, timing, location, requirements, and expected commitment.
Keep opportunities current as circumstances change, and close them when support is no longer needed.
Program supportParticipant-sponsored requestsOne-time projectsRecurring roles
Make it easier for someone to understand the need and decide how they can help.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Needs and Opportunity Management
A general need becomes a specific, actionable opportunity with a named coordinator.
02
02 — Check
Existing Resource Check
Direct generosity toward the gaps that remain.
Sometimes the right response is a volunteer or donated item. Sometimes an established program already provides the support. The HopeMatch vision connects Mobilize with Discover and Networks to help organizers identify existing services before requesting additional community resources.
Use Mobilize to
Look for existing support: relevant providers, programs, and resources.
Define the remaining gap: the specific need that has not been addressed.
Choose an appropriate response: whether community participation can safely and meaningfully help.
Assistance programsProvider supportRemaining gaps
Use the system of care where it can help. Mobilize the community where it can contribute.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Existing Resource Check
Existing programs are considered first; community requests focus on what remains.
03
03 — Recruit
Volunteer Recruitment and Community Matching
Connect willing people with work that fits.
A person may want to serve without knowing where their time or skills would be useful. Mobilize connects responses to specific opportunities, giving coordinators a clearer picture of what someone is offering and where they may fit.
Use Mobilize to
Recruit for defined roles: recurring programs, one-time projects, or events.
Understand the person’s offer: interests, availability, experience, and skills.
Coordinate participation: review the response, confirm expectations, arrange the next step.
MentorsBusiness teamsRetired professionalsEvent support
Move from a list of interested people to useful participation.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Volunteer Recruitment and Community Matching
Responses arrive connected to the opportunity, with the details needed to coordinate.
04
04 — Request
Donation, Supply, and Sponsorship Requests
Connect generosity with what is actually needed.
Mobilize helps organizations communicate specific material and funding needs rather than rely on general appeals. A request can explain which items are needed, how they will be used, and what arrangements are necessary — and donor interest stays connected to the program it supports.
Use Mobilize to
Request useful goods: quantities, condition, timing, and delivery instructions.
Organize funding interest: connect donors and sponsors with defined needs or projects.
Coordinate focused campaigns around a supply drive, program, or initiative.
Make it easier to give something your organization can put to use.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Donation, Supply, and Sponsorship Requests
Specific item requests with pledges tracked separately from what has arrived.
05
05 — Collect
Online Forms and Sign-Ups
Keep every response connected to the right need.
Staff requests, volunteer registrations, item pledges, and partnership inquiries can quickly become separate lists. Mobilize connects the information collected with the relevant opportunity, organization, and coordinator.
Use Mobilize to
Surface needs from your team with a structured way to submit requests.
Collect useful responses: the details needed to evaluate and coordinate an offer.
Preserve the context: what the person responded to and who needs to follow up.
Capture the response in a way that supports the next action.
Inside HopeMatchCommunity view
Online Forms and Sign-Ups
A sign-up linked directly to the opportunity and routed to its coordinator.
06
06 — Nurture
Supporter Database
Build on your community relationships over time.
Your supporters offer more than contact information. They bring skills, interests, relationships, and experience. Mobilize keeps relevant volunteer, donor, sponsor, and partner details organized so useful information does not depend on one staff member’s memory.
Use Mobilize to
Keep details together: contact information, interests, availability, and connections.
Understand prior involvement: responses and recorded participation.
Support future outreach: identify people whose interests fit an upcoming opportunity.
VolunteersDonorsSponsorsCommunity partners
Turn individual responses into relationships your organization can continue to nurture.
Skills, interests, and past involvement organized for future outreach.
07
07 — Follow up
Communication and Follow-Up
Give every offer of help a clear next step.
Someone signs up, pledges an item, or offers expertise. Now they need to know what happens next. Mobilize supports communication connected to the opportunity so organizers can acknowledge responses, explain requirements, and coordinate the contribution.
Use Mobilize to
Confirm the response: recognize the offer and identify the opportunity involved.
Notify the coordinator: bring new responses to the person responsible for reviewing them.
Support follow-through: instructions, reminders, updates, and follow-up through the configured workflow.
Make it clear that an offer was received and someone is responsible for the next step.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Communication and Follow-Up
New responses notify the coordinator, and the conversation stays connected to the opportunity.
08
08 — Track
Commitment and Fulfillment Tracking
Follow the need beyond the sign-up.
A commitment is progress. It is not the same as completion. Mobilize helps your organization distinguish support that has been offered from support that has actually been provided.
Use Mobilize to
Record commitments: volunteers, pledged items, funding interest, and other contributions offered.
Review what remains: compare commitments and completed contributions with the original request.
Confirm fulfillment: record the result, update the opportunity, and close requests when appropriate.
Pledged vs. deliveredPartial fulfillmentApprovals pending
Know what is open, what is in progress, and what has genuinely been met.
Inside HopeMatchCoordinator view
Commitment and Fulfillment Tracking
Commitments and fulfilled contributions tracked side by side against the original request.
09
09 — Publish
Organization Pages and Community Portals
Give your community a shared place to respond.
Bring your organization’s current needs into one destination instead of creating a disconnected form for every request. Organization pages help people understand your mission and explore opportunities; broader deployments can bring together participating schools, churches, nonprofits, or coalition members.
Use Mobilize to
Show who is coordinating the work: connect opportunities with a recognizable organization.
Bring current needs together: easier to browse, share, and revisit.
Fit the audience: public, partner-focused, or restricted experiences.
Start with the relationships you have and create a clearer way for them to participate.
Inside HopeMatchCommunity view
Organization Pages and Community Portals
One shared destination for an organization’s current ways to help.
10
10 — Report
Reporting and Outcome Visibility
Show what community participation helped accomplish.
Mobilize’s operational reporting connects the requests your team publishes with the responses and results it records. Review open opportunities, participation, outstanding commitments, and fulfilled needs — and use that information to guide follow-up and communicate progress.
Use Mobilize to
Manage the work: identify requests that still need attention.
Understand the response: contributions offered and participation by opportunity.
Report the result: fulfilled needs, partial support, and unresolved gaps.
Open opportunitiesParticipationRecurring needsUnresolved gaps
Measure more than how many people raised their hands. Understand what their participation helped provide.
Inside HopeMatchOrganization view
Reporting and Outcome Visibility
Requests, responses, and fulfilled needs in one operational view — feeding Impact.
The connected vision
One need. A more complete community response.
Consider a family moving into stable housing. Each HopeMatch product plays a part.
Step 1
Discover
Helps identify relevant housing services.
Step 2
Networks
Helps participating providers coordinate the referrals and support.
Step 3
Mobilize
The family secures housing, but furniture and moving help remain. A trusted organization creates appropriate opportunities, engages donors and volunteers, coordinates delivery, and records what was provided.
Step 4
Impact
Connects those recorded outcomes with the broader journey, helping leaders understand both the services delivered and the practical support still needed.
This illustrates the connected HopeMatch vision. Product connections are developed around each deployment’s capabilities, permissions, and information-sharing practices.
Mobilize does not replace formal care. It brings the community into the parts of the response it can appropriately support.
For your community
Built for organizations that care and partners ready to participate.
Nonprofits and service providers
Expand the support around your programs.
Recruit volunteers, request supplies, engage expertise, and sponsor appropriate practical needs affecting the people you serve.
Schools and school systems
Connect your community with the needs closest to students and families.
Organize mentors, classroom support, career speakers, supplies, and program resources through a consistent process.
Churches and ministries
Give your congregation practical ways to care.
Coordinate service opportunities, ministry needs, neighborhood projects, and appropriately sponsored requests through people your community knows and trusts.
Businesses and employee groups
Contribute where your people and resources fit.
Connect with organization-defined opportunities for team service, professional expertise, donated goods, and sponsorship.
Foundations and coalitions
Strengthen the capacity of organizations you support.
Explore sponsoring a shared Mobilize deployment, supporting coordinator training, and helping participating organizations engage their communities more effectively.
The HopeMatch system
Part of a connected system. Useful on its own.
Each HopeMatch product stands on its own. Together, they follow the same journey — from finding help, to coordinating it, to engaging the community, to understanding what changed.
Product connections are developed around each deployment's capabilities, permissions, and information-sharing practices.
A practical path
Start with a real need and a practical plan.
Mobilize can be your starting point — you do not need the entire HopeMatch platform to begin. Discover and Networks help people access established programs and coordinate care across providers. Mobilize brings the broader community into that response, with structure that keeps the relationships in it.
1
See Mobilize in action
Walk through creating an opportunity, collecting responses, coordinating commitments, and recording fulfillment.
2
Choose your starting point
Identify a program, group of needs, or community initiative that would benefit from more organized support.
3
Prepare your team and engage your community
Define coordinators, review practices, initial opportunities, outreach, training, and follow-up responsibilities. Begin with one organization or explore a shared deployment across several partners.
Your community has something to offer. Give it a clear way to help.
You understand the needs affecting your organization and the people you serve. HopeMatch Mobilize helps you turn those needs into actionable opportunities, bring willing people into the response, and follow through on what remains to be done.
Come ready to share the needs your organization knows best, the community you want to engage, and how requests and follow-up work today.
HopeMatch Mobilize · Connecting the community into acts of care.
