Volunteer Message Center, Text Messaging, and more! Based on our customers’ and their volunteers’ feedback, we regularly make improvements to ivolunteer. Here are a few recent and upcoming updates. Volunteer Message Center ivolunteer recently rolled out a new communications feature: a volunteer message center in My Commitments. When logged into their portal, your participants can…
In ivolunteer.com, your participant database holds a unique record for each volunteer. You can update their contact info and run a report on their activity. (They can run a report on their own participation, too, in their My Commitments portal.) With a Premium account you also can email your database on demand. But what if…
It happens: a volunteer signs up with two different email addresses or name variations, creating two different participant records in your database. For database cleanup and more accurate reporting, you may want to merge those duplicate records into one. Here’s how. How does ivolunteer.com create volunteer records? ivolunteer counts a participant by first name +…
Online Sign-In and Attendance Tracking are longtime features of ivolunteer.com. Recently, we launched a mobile friendly sign-in application for all our Premium subscriptions. You now can easily sign in your participants from your phone or tablet by scanning a QR code from their confirmation email or searching by name or email. The mobile friendly link…
It’s been a while since CFO* Charley offered volunteer scheduling and management tips. Truth is, she’s been busy romping around the office with her new co-CFO, Frankie, while developers Tad and Paul work on new ivolunteer features. National Pet Day seems like a good day to catch everybody up on new and upcoming features in…
We see volunteer management as a team effort between you and ivolunteer. You know your organization’s sign up needs and your prospective volunteers. We know volunteer management software and want to support your mission, your way. That’s why we provide a flexible signup tool that adapts to your unique needs, not the other way around….
NEW: Signup Scheduling Relative to Slot Dates Signup scheduling got more flexible: your ivolunteer.com signup opportunities now have more granular options for signup start and end dates. These options are especially helpful for long-running signup opportunities such as monthly or quarterly schedules. ivolunteer has always allowed you to select signup start and end dates for…
Online sign up is probably a key feature you are looking for in a volunteer management tool like ivolunteer.com. Online scheduling is, in fact, the main way that volunteer managers and other coordinators use our service. However, many organizations also want an easy way to sign up participants on location and then sign them in…
Tracking attendance is a key feature of volunteer management software. If you run a busy organization, you may find it a challenge to sign in volunteers or other participants and track their hours on location. At a shelters that serves meals to those in need, for example, many volunteers may be arriving and leaving throughout…
We want to make sure you have all the help you need for the best possible online volunteer scheduling. To that end, our CFO (Chief Fluffy Officer) Charley, who lives and codes with co-owner-developer Tad, reviews the latest features of ivolunteer.com. Charley wants to call your attention to the “Select a Template” step in the…
Will you be managing volunteers during the holidays? Volunteer coordinators of service organizations are often stretched thin. For many of our customers, the holidays are an especially busy and challenging time. From coordinating holiday food and toy drives to scheduling volunteers for a Christmas feast, administrators need to sign up volunteers across a range of…
Our online scheduling software makes sign ups easy for a wide variety of organizations. But you still need to rustle up volunteers! Here are some tips to build your volunteer base. While our customers’ missions vary widely, most grapple with the same dilemma: How do I get more volunteers? Here are some tips that may…
An ivolunteer.com account provides your own volunteer sign up website with your organization’s logo or banner. But sometimes, you may need more than one place for prospective participants to go, depending on who they are. Do you manage volunteer groups that are completely separate from each other? For example, maybe you coordinate events for a…
Managing volunteers and other participants is a challenging process whether you have 20 people to sign up or 2,000. As a coordinator, you have so many scheduling duties that passing around a paper signup sheet just doesn’t cut it anymore. You probably came to ivolunteer.com because online signup empowers your participants to self-manage their commitments….
Shout out to schools and universities! ivolunteer.com makes online sign ups easy and flexible for teachers, administrators, coaches, and parents. How do schools use ivolunteer.com for online sign ups? Elementary and high school administrators use ivolunteer to schedule and track many types of online sign ups: parents, students, and community volunteers. A signup sheet can…
How often do you need to communicate with your volunteers to manage signups and keep events running smoothly? We’ve got tools for that! Volunteer management is an umbrella for many interrelated tasks. We know one of the key challenges as a volunteer manager is to stay connected with your current, past, and prospective volunteers. ivolunteer.com…
Sometimes, you may need to sign up volunteers for special tasks or roles. Here’s how to do that in your ivolunteer.com Event. By default, anyone with the link to an active opportunity can sign up for a volunteer slot. However, some jobs require prior experience, special training, and/or proof of age. From search and rescue…
This Tips and Tricks post will tell you how to tailor your signup form for different groups of volunteers in your event or opportunity. Different Signup Prompts for Different Folks Volunteer sign ups in ivolunteer.com can have many sub-groupings, sort of like a nesting doll. These groupings are called Task areas. You may have one…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could track volunteer hours without setting a specific start and end time for a signup slot? Now there is an easy way to let participants self-report their hours worked. Tracking volunteer hours is usually automatic in ivolunteer.com. Date and time fields let you set a block of time for…
You asked for an easier way to get started with ivolunteer.com Events. We listened! We’re excited to introduce the New Event Wizard, a.k.a. NEW. How Does the Wizard Work? Now when you click the +Add button, the NEW will step you through the setup of your Event. If you’re a pro and prefer the old…
