How to list your Opportunity.
Read this information! It will save us all a lot of time and help avoid misunderstandings.
Business people searching our site count on us to list high quality Opportunities. Therefore, we review a submission to help you to improve it before we approve it for the site.
Submitting an Opportunity takes a fair amount of work. Why? To motivate a busy professional to use vacation time and pay his or her own expenses to help you! Business people stay away from proposals that are poorly thought out.
Read through these important topics to create a successful opportunity.
Understanding our Labels
To navigate our instructions and forms you’ll need to understand the labels we use.
Opportunity – A distinct way in which you need help from a business person. Each distinct person you need to help in a specific way generates an Opportunity.
Project – The larger task that may need help from several different business people. Therefore, one Project might prompt you to submit multiple Opportunities.
Project Owner – The point person responsible for all Opportunities linked to a given Project. This person communicates with BAMmatch and any potential volunteers.
A Project Owner needs to register with us to submit Opportunities and an annual fee of $40 USD allows you to submit all the Opportunities that you personally supervise.
A Successful Submission is...
Aligned with the following values and strategy.
We need Opportunities that align with BAMmatch's values and strategy, listed below. You can also browse our current Opportunities to learn more about the type of opportunities we accept.
Real Business.
An Opportunity needs to be about real business. Some people interested in business and mission set up businesses that barely function. They are a “platform” or excuse to live in a location and pursue other worthy purposes. That is NOT what we want! We want Opportunities that involve real business or that need real business skills to improve a non-profit’s operations.
One that offers spiritual value.
Our strategy adds economic, social, and spiritual value. Therefore, a Project Owner that submits an Opportunity must understand and promote the spiritual impact of an Opportunity and the Project behind that Opportunity. For that reason, the following two statements are true:
1. BAMmatch cooperates with a wide variety of people and organizations that share our humanitarian ends, even if we are not on the exact same page spiritually.
2. Project Owners who submit Opportunities on our site need to have the a similar spiritual orientation with ours, for the sake of values alignment and our own sense of doing the spiritual part well.
If all this spiritual focus seems a bit odd and you want to talk about it with us, we are happy to do that. Just send us an email to start a conversation.
About Money
No Fundraising
Our list of Opportunities is not about raising funds. It is about helping Christian business people match their skill sets with strategic situations that need them. If the Project behind your Opportunity needs funding you will need to pursue that through other means.
Because of United States tax laws, we cannot receive donations for specific Projects or Opportunities not under our control, even if someone wants to donate to it through us.
Costs Involved In An Opportunity – Your Responsibility
All costs involved with executing your Opportunity and receiving a visiting business person are your responsibility to negotiate and manage. BAMmatch does not assume any responsibility for any cost related to your Opportunity, visiting professionals, or visits that might not materialize even though you put work and money into setting up the details.
The Business Person’s Responsibility
We tell interested business people that if they engage with an Opportunity they:
1. Donate their time.
2. Pay their travel and lodging/food expenses or raise that money from their own circles of influence for their “short-term mission trip.”
3. Can anticipate that their hosts will show them hospitality but that their hosts will usually be just making ends meet.
Our Placement Donation
We request, from you, the Project Owner, a Placement Donation of $50 once a business person is working with your Opportunity. Why? To help offset our expenses. Successfully delivering a qualified business person to volunteer for you requires a lot of time and expense.
Who has Control?
You do, as Project Owner. We welcome Opportunities from every organization and individual doing BAM or qualified social enterprises, from every corner of the world. We simply broker the connections between project owners and potential volunteers.
As the one responsible on the ground, the Project Owner/organization retains the necessary control over the following: 1. The final decision to engage is made by the volunteer and the Project Owner/organization.
2. The volunteer, if doing a trip or longer stay, goes out through whatever systems the Project Owner/organization normally use. Transformational Ventures, that operates BAMmatch, can offer great systems that get business people to a site visit but using them is entirely optional.
3. Ownership and control of the coaching relationship is in the hands of the Project Owner and volunteerr.
How to Submit an Opportunity: Project info and Opportunity info
In order to complete a submission, first think through what you need help with and make sure it satisfies the requirements listed above. If you have questions or doubts, do contact us. Next, become a registered Project Owner by clicking on the button below called "Become a Project Owner" and follow the steps. Fill out the info we ask for in two steps: Fill out info about the larger project that is the context for the Opportunity you will post later. The Project is where you "sell" a business person about the importance of your work. For example, in the graphic above, why would a business person travel around the world to help Song's chicken farm? You will talk about humanitarian and spiritual impact; strategic nature of the project, what logistical support you will give a visiting volunteer, etc. Convince someone to help you! Then, fill out the actual Opportunity form. Here you describe exactly what kind of person you need, the concrete deliverables (outcomes) desired, and other details. In the graphic above, Song would describe the marketing need she has and exactly what a volunteer would help her produce.
What Happens Next?
1. We will be in touch with any follow-up questions regarding your Opportunity. We will help you make it one that attracts volunteers.
2. We will do basic training and orientation of any business volunteer that commits to your Opportunity. We will also communicate, to you, the equipping we do. You are responsible for any additional training specific to your Opportunity and location.
3. We will help the business person know what questions to ask regarding basic logistics involved with consulting by Skype/email or with traveling to your location. Any logistics unique to your Opportunity and situation will need to be communicated by you.
4. We will contact you and the volunteer at key points during or after an Opportunity engagement, to debrief and capture successes and ways to improve our services. 5. As Project Owner, you agree to communicate to us observable results that might contribute to our ‘metrics’ – our attempts to measure our effectiveness. We will send you a simple tool to do that once or twice after an Opportunity has been fulfilled. 6. We reserve the right to post, on BAMmatch, appropriate stories and pictures of Opportunities, successes, and impact and to reference stories for training purposes. We will make sure that any posting or story either is "sanitized" of identifying details or that we have your permission and approval of final copy, especially where security is an issue.
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