Fragmented discovery
Opportunities and coordination are spread across disconnected channels.
Makerspace Workshop
Ending volunteer fragmentation in Nigeria by 2036. That long term direction starts with what Community Mobilizers experience now.What must JoinBody build first to reduce volunteer fragmentation?
You already bring people together, so you see what works and where it breaks. That real experience is exactly what we need to shape what JoinBody builds first.-
Your role
Add short notes to a simple digital board and explain them
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Bring
One or two real examples from your work
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You do not need
Slides, payment, or a finished idea
The specific tool will be shared closer to the session.
These are areas JoinBody currently thinks may matter. Your experience may validate, combine, rename, or replace them.
Trust and verification
Mobilizers carry reputation and safety risk when they vouch for a chance.
Economic pressure and cost of time
Volunteering competes with earning, transport, family, and work.
Organizational capacity
Small organizations often lack the tools to manage volunteers well.
Digital access
Devices, data cost, and confidence shape who can take part.
Measurement and system coordination
Participation goes unrecorded and the main systems stay disconnected.
The 90 minute agenda
A working ninety minutes. We move from the 2036 direction to your present day evidence, then to the priorities JoinBody builds first.| Time | Agenda topic | Activity block | What participants do | Output |
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| 0 to 10 min | North Star, baseline, and boundaries | Orientation | Hear the 2036 direction, the honest 2026 baseline, and what this session is not. | Shared purpose and clear boundaries. |
| 10 to 25 min | Write present day experiences | Write | Add short notes from your real work as a Mobilizer. | Starting evidence from lived experience. |
| 25 to 40 min | Share and clarify examples | Share | Explain the story behind your notes. | Context behind the evidence. |
| 40 to 58 min | Group naturally emerging patterns | Group | Cluster the problems and needs that repeat. | Participant named themes. |
| 58 to 75 min | Prioritize the first foundations | Prioritize | Choose what JoinBody should address first. | Prototype and research priorities. |
| 75 to 85 min | Translate priorities into the pathway | Translate | Help connect themes to prototype and next steps. | Inputs for the prototype and the longer JoinBody plan. |
| 85 to 90 min | Next steps and accountability | Close | Hear how your input is used and what comes next. | A closed participation loop. |
0 to 10 min
North Star, baseline, and boundaries
Orientation
- What participants do
- Hear the 2036 direction, the honest 2026 baseline, and what this session is not.
- Output
- Shared purpose and clear boundaries.
10 to 25 min
Write present day experiences
Write
- What participants do
- Add short notes from your real work as a Mobilizer.
- Output
- Starting evidence from lived experience.
25 to 40 min
Share and clarify examples
Share
- What participants do
- Explain the story behind your notes.
- Output
- Context behind the evidence.
40 to 58 min
Group naturally emerging patterns
Group
- What participants do
- Cluster the problems and needs that repeat.
- Output
- Participant named themes.
58 to 75 min
Prioritize the first foundations
Prioritize
- What participants do
- Choose what JoinBody should address first.
- Output
- Prototype and research priorities.
75 to 85 min
Translate priorities into the pathway
Translate
- What participants do
- Help connect themes to prototype and next steps.
- Output
- Inputs for the prototype and the longer JoinBody plan.
85 to 90 min
Next steps and accountability
Close
- What participants do
- Hear how your input is used and what comes next.
- Output
- A closed participation loop.
Yours to keep, for life
Take part in one Makerspace Workshop and these stay with you for good, our way of saying thank you.Builder recognition
JoinBody Volunteer Marketplace Builder
Your name is recorded as a marketplace builder. Your public profile stays unless you ask us to hide or remove it.
On record
Certificate of Participation
A certificate in your name for taking part in a JoinBody Makerspace Workshop.
When it launches
Lifetime marketplace access
When the JoinBody volunteer marketplace launches, the founding mobilizer cohort uses it free, for life.
Founding co designer
Your ideas shape what we build
What you share in the session helps decide what the first marketplace prototype includes.
Small rooms, clear next steps
Each session stays small enough for real participation. When more mobilizers are ready, JoinBody opens another session.After the workshop, here is the path ahead, and where you fit in it.
Right after the workshop
Step 1: JoinBody starts building
We turn session patterns into a prototype, targeting December 2026 at a minimum Technology Readiness Level of 7 to 8.
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Before it opens to everyone
Step 2: You test it first
As a Marketplace Builder you are invited to try the prototype and help shape it before it opens to the public.
Then
Step 3: Public launch and dissemination
We open the prototype to the public and share what we learn along the way.
Alongside
Step 4: Connecting the wider system
We start connecting with the bodies already doing this work, like NRCS, NYSC, NNVS and UNV, so volunteering in Nigeria works better together.