bantu.life

29/11/2021

New blog post update 📣 : With COVID-19 pushing more physical events onto the virtual space, organising activities virtually will become an essential activity. So what does this mean for volunteer managers? What other digital skills do volunteer managers need to thrive in 2022 & onwards?

👇🏼 To read our latest article, click the link below to read our latest blog post “Must-have Digital Skills for Volunteer Managers”.

Top Digital Skills to have in order to make life as a Volunteer Manager easier

24/11/2021

Calling all those who want to do good and contribute to society! 📣 Are you interested in:
👉🏽 The most Latest and Exciting Volunteering Opportunities?
👉🏽 Staying updated and raising awareness on trending social issues in Singapore?
👉🏽 Building a community of like-minded individuals like yourself?

If you answered 'Yes' to any of the 3 things above, you are more than welcome to ✨join✨ our telegram group chat:

[→Click and scroll to see what our Telegram Chat has in store for you!]

18/11/2021

🎉 Our heartiest congratulations to our Co-Founders of bantu, Nicholas Ooi (Class of 2018 NUS School of Computing) & Janelle Lee (Class of 2017 NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) for receiving the prestigious NUS Alumni Award on 5th Nov!

We're extremely proud that our Co-Founders were being awarded the Team Award & were one of the ✨youngest recipients✨ for the year. It was definitely heartening to know that our founders' vision to digitalise non-profit organisations has been recognised.

🌟Congratulations to the other award recipients: MP Tin Pei Ling 陈佩玲, MP Carrie Tan 陈澮敏, ShopBack founders, Circles.Life CEO, Rameez Ansar, & many others!

👉🏻More about the NUS Alumni Award ceremony

This award ceremony was held to acknowledge the contributions and efforts 🌟of NUS alumni who have contributed significantly to society and are highly estemeed in their field of industry.

10/11/2021

10/11/2021

Thank you National University of Singapore, NUS Alumni and NUS Overseas Colleges for the feature! 😃 We're honored and grateful to be able to contribute for the better of society ✨

From left: Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipients Mr Lim Wei Jie (Co-Founder and Director of Foreword Coffee Roasters), and Mr Laurence Putra Franslay (winner of the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards 2020); and Team (Alumni) Award recipients – co-founders of bantu.life, Mr Nicholas Ooi and Ms Janelle Lee with NUS President Prof Tan Eng Chye.

Read more at nus.edu/3k5ffaG.

09/11/2021

If you’ve just recently started work in a charity organisation, how can you make your workplace collaboration & productivity better? 💭 What 🔧 tools & processes should we employ during this seemingly never ending work-from-home season?

Our co-founder Janelle was invited to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the YouthTech trainees, in collaboration with National Youth Council Singapore, Bold At Work and Hatch to share the know-hows of working well & with significance during their work stint.

03/11/2021

We are so glad to have received such ✨great✨ feedback in our first run of the Data-Driven Social Media Workshop on 31st August – enabling charities to better leverage social media for digital fundraising. The workshop was recommended by all our participants & many of them put in good words for the trainers from bantu Janelle Lee and Nicholas Ooi, Joel Khoo.

If you missed out on our first run, don't worry! We'll be having our next run of the Data-Driven Social Media workshop on 22nd November!

Interested in training and workshops like this to manage your digital fundraising campaigns better? Reach out to us at [email protected] 📩



Integrative Learning Corporation Pte Ltd, All Saints Home, Breast Cancer Foundation, Canossaville Children & Community Services, Dementia Singapore, iC2 PrepHouse, Children's Cancer Foundation, PPIS Singapore Muslim Women's Assn, O'Joy, Sree Narayana Mission, Law Society Pro Bono Services

01/11/2021

We have finally completed the 3-Day workshop of The Social Code! 🎉 In our last session, our Co-founder Janelle explored more on the 🧪 Science of Making Friends. Our participants learnt interesting Psychology theories and concepts that help them understand how people react in different social situations better.

We are so ✨ grateful ✨ that every single one of our participants were highly engaged & participative in all our activities. We'd like to thank NUS SoC (NUS School of Computing) for organising this event and all our participants who joined the sessions!

Want more workshops like this to help improve your staff or community's personal development? Email us at [email protected] 📩



National University of Singapore

28/10/2021

How have remote internships changed the way we communicate with our managers & teammates? 💬🤔

In our second session of The Social Code with NUS School of Computing, our co-founder Janelle deep dived into the important social skills needed to excel while on an internship. Each participant learned how to engage with their team at work intentionally, applying effective strategies for networking, and also making the best out of a remote internship.

We saw a great number of new participants who joined us despite it being a Saturday afternoon, & it was extremely heartening to see everyone being thoroughly engaged throughout the whole session & interacting with each other too! 💯

Looking for workshops like this to help improve your staff or community's personal development? Email us at [email protected] 📩

25/10/2021

🎉 Woohoo – our first session of The Social Code on 14 October was a huge success! Our Co-Founder Janelle shared her expertise in communication (yes, she graduated with a degree in Communications at National University of Singapore) to coach NUS School of Computing students on authentic communication, non-verbal & verbal communication cues & engaging in meaningful conversations.

We are so glad to see our participants working on under-emphasised communication skills that are extremely essential in building successful & meaningful relationships in their personal & professional lives – and bonus: they made new friends too! 👏🏻

Interested in personal development coaching workshops like this for your staff or community? Email us at [email protected] 📩

[Check out our session below 👇🏻 to see the exciting highlights]

15/10/2021

On the 24 September, our Co-founder Nicholas & VP of Partnerships Joel, were invited as special guests ✨ for the Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia Innovator's Pitch to share how tech can help digitalise volunteer management in the Malaysian 🇲🇾 charities. Our live demonstration of bantu Workspace was well-received by more than 30 different participants from 8 charities all across Malaysia.

We are excited to collaborate with our Malaysian neighbours & are excited for more partnerships like this in future!

Reach us at [email protected] for partnerships & event collaborations

Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia - YIM - Malaysia Innovation Foundation

12/10/2021

A 3-part special workshop series led by our Co-founder Janelle, “The Social Code” will feature student guest speakers from NUS School of Computing (SoC) to help build communication skills & social skills ✨ of SoC Year 1 & 2 students 💬 - happening this month!

Sounds interesting? Are you a student? Reach out & DM us for the registration link ✉️