Make Me a Match! Friendship Force International planning@friendshipforce.org
WHAT IS JOURNEY MATCHING ? A process by which inbound and outbound Journey opportunities are created. Clubs are matched based on: • Requests • Availability • Host Capacity • Journey History
MATCHING PROCESS FOR 2019 ONLINE FORM #1 ONLINE FORM #2 Gives clubs the Gives clubs the ability to specify the ability to indicate number of weeks where they want to they will be able to travel in 2020. host in 2020.
2020 JOURNEY MATCHING TIMELINE July 15-Aug 15, 2018 Sept 1-Nov 1, 2018 Nov-Dec 2018 Mid-Feb, 2019 March 1, 2019 Journey Matching Process Change Distribution of Distribution of the Distribution of the Process Requests Journey 2020 Inbound Host 2020 Outbound Assignments Availability Form Request Form T he data collected History has shown that from the forms is the majority of The first step in the After assignments are The second step is to downloaded and used Journey assignments Journey Matching made by FFI Planning distribute an online to process requests. are accepted by clubs. Process is to distribute and reviewed by the form that allows clubs Journey Matching is a We anticipate a small a form that allows Program staff, an to request their manual process that percentage of clubs users to specify their email confirmation preferred Journey relies on a number of will request changes hosting availability. containing Journey destinations. Clubs different factors to the original This form also allows information will be can select up to 4 including: destination assignment. Our goal clubs to identify sent to the club destinations. requests, past travel is to finalize the mutual Journey presidents. history, availability, assignments by the agreements. and number of end of February. travellers.
DO YOU KNOW THAT… COUNTRY # OF # OF HOSTING # OF REQUESTS CLUBS WEEKS Sweden 1 1 42 USA 92 104 44 Japan 25 29 54
HOW TO GET A GREAT JOURNEY ➢ Turn in the forms on time ➢ Be flexible in terms of destinations ➢ Select realistic destinations ➢ Include as much information as possible on the request form - use the “Additional Comments” box! ➢ Request reciprocal Journeys
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