Welcome!!!  Youth Bank by Maybank is a knowledge bank that allows youth and volunteers alike to ‘deposit’ their volunteer time and facilitates Volunteer Host Organisations (VHO) to match their volunteer needs. 

 

ABOUT MAD

 

Who wants to be Making A Difference (MAD)?  This question was first mooted in 2001, and the first MAD movement was launched in 2001 by Heartware Network which is a charitable youth organization.  Heartware Network aims to network individuals and organisations to do meaningful community service out of their hearts' passion.  The MAD Movement has evolved from a yearly event into Youth Bank!  This is an online community to network both youth (volunteers) and Volunteer Host Organisations (VHO) through virtual volunteering.

 

The Youth Bank is a knowledge bank, sponsored by Maybank, and powered by Microsoft Singapore , in allowing our youths to ‘deposit’ their volunteer time and facilitating host organisations to match their volunteer needs.  In addition, it acts as a proactive matchmaker, ensuring proper training, matching and follow-through for all youths involved on a sustainable basis.  It also seeks to celebrate the involvement of the youths, and facilitate the sharing of experiences and ideas amongst them, thereby creating a virtuous cycle of encouraging their development as community champions.

The Youth Bank has the following features:

Youth Volunteer and Mobilisation Call Centre (YVMCC)

 

 

The Youth Bank has a nerve centre from where youth volunteer coordinators liaise with volunteers on their volunteering activities and partnering VHO(s) on their volunteering needs.  It will also serve as the command centre for youth mobilisation in times of an emergency. 

 

In April of 2007, we trained the very first batch of Volunteer Co-ordinators (mainly from Raffles Junior College ), who have been operating the Call Centre from out of our office premises.

Forum (Interest Groups)

The Youth Bank Forum encourages active sharing of volunteering ideas and experiences for all volunteers.

The online Community Problem Solving (CPS) Forum provides a platform for youths to share community problems they face in their immediate surroundings such as school and neighbourhood.  It not only facilitates discussion, planning and translation of proposed solutions to community problems into real action by the youths, but also creates opportunities for them to receive virtual guidance and learn from adult mentors and youths from higher institutions.

Gift Exchange System

This ‘useful item’ exchange system encourages youths to pool their completed volunteer hours to exchange for useful items pledged by corporations and then donate them to a charity of their choice.  This system teaches the youths the monetary value of their volunteer time, thereby “making every volunteer moment count”.  The ability to put an intrinsic value to their volunteering efforts will encourage them to do more thus promoting the spirit of altruistic giving. This unique exchange system will be the ‘Heartware’ of the Youth Bank.

Windows Live Messenger Tab

The messenger tab will enable us to reach out to 1.2 million registered MSN users who exchange an estimate of 44 million messages daily.  The messenger tab is made possible with support of Microsoft MSN Live Update.