Big Help Mob is a huge mob of ordinary people like you who combine their powers to perform extraordinary feats of generosity for people, ecosystems and animals who need help.
Whether it’s 5 people needed to paint a fence for an old lady, 105 people needed to plant 10,000 trees in a single morning, or 25 people needed to defend orphaned puppies from falling fridges, we’re here to help.
We aim to involve such a buttload of people that Big Help Mob will become a collective superhero, capable of responding to each and every legitimate request for help from anyone in Perth (and eventually beyond). We’re kinda like a flash mob, but useful.
Big Help Mob is an initiative of Useful Inc. We’re a small upstart of a non-profit based in Perth, Western Australia.
Useful exists to make doing good stuff for others as mainstream as cheeseburgers and breathing. We reckon a big part of turning this vision into reality is giving a buttload more people a buttload more opportunities to help others out in their local community, hence Big Help Mob!
Big Help Mob is a non-profit social enterprise. This means that, beyond some initial injections of cash, we intend to be sustained financially by the people we directly create value for. This is so we can stay focused on creating awesome experiences, fully sick online tools, and a truly radical and friendly community rather than getting distracted by having to go and “sell” the idea to donors or sponsors who want to logo all over everything.
We charge non-profits a small fee for posting missions hey need help with (less than the pizza they might have bought to feed the volunteers). You can see how much here.
We charge businesses for the service of making employee volunteering ridiculously simple and saving them approximately a bajillion hours of research and coordination.
And finally, we actually ask Captains and Sidekicks who had a good experience volunteering on a mission to give what they think is a fair contribution to allow Big Help Mob to keep going and to reach more people. If they can’t pay, we don’t treat them any differently to if they paid a ridiculously large amount.
All that said, we still get a lot of amazing support and would like to throw several megawatts of thanks to each of our stupendous partners for making our work possible:
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Big Help Mob specialises in providing bursts of people-power to help out on missions. A mission is a short term, hands-on project that can be completed within one day.
Every Big Help Mob mission starts with a Mastermind. At this point, Masterminds are almost all volunteer coordinators at non-profits and community groups. The Mastermind goes “Hey Big Help Mob, we’ve got this project that needs some people-power.”
Then Big Help Mob goes, “Wickedsticks. we’ll get a Captain onto it faster than you can say ‘Calculus is irrelevant to this sentence’.”
Captains are rather heroic individuals who lead missions. They are the glue of the Big Help Mob community. Captains are all like, “Hi Mastermind McTrousers, I’m going to take care of this mission and make sure it’s gets completed even if it means (insert absurdly disproportionate level of self-sacrifice here)” while at the same time roping in their friends to become Sidekicks on the Mission.
Sidekicks are equally heroic individuals who volunteer side-by-side with their fellow Sidekicks and Captains to form a formidable cell of superheroes, get their hands dirty and complete the mission while having fun and making new friends. They don’t get a fancy script part in the “What is This?” section cos when they all talk at once it sounds like “Jifnifnewot-er-lotter-troosies” and that makes little or no sense.
Are you ready to use your powers for good?
Do you have a worthy project that needs people-power?
Does your business need a smarter way to coordinate employee volunteering?
