Product design question

How would you design a volunteering app for Facebook?

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What this question tests

Product design for a low-frequency, mission-driven use case: can you design something that drives real-world action, not just passive engagement.

Define the user: someone wanting to give time to causes they care about, but who's usually blocked by not knowing where or how to start.
Identify the core pain point: high friction discovering trustworthy, relevant local volunteering opportunities matched to a person's interests and schedule.
Propose the design: integrate with existing Facebook Groups/Events and nonprofit pages, surfacing opportunities filtered by cause, location, and time commitment.
Add a social layer: show which friends are participating, since social proof is a known driver of volunteering follow-through.
Address trust: verification of nonprofit organizers to prevent scams or low-quality listings.
Define success: opportunities-to-signup conversion rate and actual attendance/completion rate, not just impressions.

Builds on Meta's existing assets (Groups, Events, Pages) instead of designing a disconnected standalone volunteering app.
Uses social proof (friends participating) as a deliberate mechanism, since it's a known lever for follow-through on this kind of low-frequency action.
Addresses trust/verification explicitly, since scams or fake listings would be uniquely damaging for a volunteering product.
Picks actual attendance as the success metric rather than signups alone, since the real goal is completed volunteering, not just intent.

Designing a standalone app disconnected from Meta's existing social graph and Groups/Events infrastructure.
Measuring success by signups or impressions instead of actual volunteering completion.

How would you verify legitimate nonprofits without creating too much friction for small local organizers?
How would you re-engage someone who signed up once but never returned?