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Omyboard owners Scott Dillabough (left) Kevin Brown (right)
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Would you rather spend your volunteer hours helping your community… or searching for that one invoice from 2014 that your treasurer, Craig, swears is necessary for the upcoming dance season? 

Kevin and Scott get it.  

Owners Kevin Brown and Scott Dillabough designed and built OMyBoard for their fellow volunteers. This volunteer board management web application aims at helping volunteer boards centralize tasks and documents, and is ideal for small groups that undergo changes regularly such as sports teams and community clubs.  

“Members then don’t have to worry about changing things every time board membership changes,” Dillabough notes. “They can focus on the mission and mandate of the board, rather than all this administrative work.”  

The app features calendar, committee, scheduling, messaging, and invitation tools, as well as a documentation library and minute-taking within the app. Position names and duty details can be included as well, easing the transition whenever membership changes. 

Dillabough came up with the idea after many years of being on volunteer committees, witnessing firsthand both how easily things can become disorganized or stressful.  

“I was on a Community Complex Board for eight years. It was a really good working board- we had a strategic plan, and we’d reorganized our financials.” Dillabough continues. “Then after I left, it fell off- there was no continuation of that work. It was frustrating. Even if somebody had looked at it and said ‘well, we want to go a different way’, that would be fine. But it was almost like our plans had never existed. I just thought… there’s got to be a better way to do this.” 

Dillabough then searched for services available to volunteer boards, but was discouraged with his findings.  

“There wasn’t really anything at the volunteer board level,” he shares. “There are very similar products out there with a functionality suite very similar to OMyBoard, but they are much more costly, and would not be affordable for volunteer boards.”  

And so, OMyBoard was born, designed with volunteer boards in mind, including sports, arts, guides, churches, and nonprofits.  

 

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“Basically any kind of board that is made up of people who have daytime jobs, but are trying to help their community get along on their spare time,” Brown adds. 

He also notes that OMyBoard isn’t just for the current board, but for future boards and their members, as everything organized in the app will save time and energy down the road.  

Brown and Dillabough are quick to note that the program was designed with phone accessibility in mind, making it even more user-friendly.  

“Not everyone is familiar with tech, and not everyone understands how to use all these great technical tools that we have available to use today,” Brown shares. “We worked really hard to simplify things to a point where anybody with any kind of skill can walk in and figure it out.” 

Registration with OMyBoard is per board, and the amount of users per board is unlimited. Application users can choose the free version, or pay $10 or $20 monthly. Functionality access increases with the levels, and the cost is charged to the board, not per member.  

Looking ahead, Brown and Dillabough would hope to see their application grow to the point where they could include a discussion forum for users to consult when facing board-related struggles.  

“If there’s something that you’re struggling with, you can plug in your questions, and maybe someone from another province… or even country… could help out,” Dillabough dreams. “Why reinvent the wheel if somebody’s already come up with a good plan to get it done?” 

For more information or to register, visit www.OMyBoard.com, or email info@OMyBoard.com.  

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