Navigating the Holidays: Tips for Volunteer Coordinators
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 tasks and locations to serve those in need….
How Do I Sign Up More Volunteers?
ivolunteer.com’s scheduling software is flexible enough to work for a wide variety of volunteer organizations. While our customers’ missions vary widely, most grapple with the same dilemma: How do I get more volunteers? Here are some tips that may help. Getting more volunteers for your cause, event, or organization involves strategic planning, effective communication, and…
A Personalized Volunteer Sign Up Website: Multiple Home Pages
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: Empower Them with Self-Management Tools
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….
Tools for Schools: Sign Up, Volunteer Management, and Reporting
Shout out to schools and universities! ivolunteer.com makes life easier for teachers, administrators, coaches, and parents. How do schools use ivolunteer.com for sign up? Elementary and high school administrators use ivolunteer to schedule and track many types of sign up sheets, volunteer and otherwise. You can sign up participants for parent-teacher conferences, fundraisers, sports clinics,…
Connect and Communicate with Your Volunteers
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…
How to Sign Up Volunteers for Restricted Tasks
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…
Fine-Tune Your Volunteer Sign Ups
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…
How to Track Volunteer Hours with Flexible Self-Reporting
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…
Announcing the New Event Wizard!
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…
New in 2022: Background Checks with BackgroundCheckology™
Do you need to pre-screen your volunteers? Ever wished you could integrate background checks with your ivolunteer account? With a Standard or Premium account, now you can! We are excited to announce that we have partnered with BackgroundCheckology™ to provide background checks for your participants in the United States. BackgroundCheckology is a leader in the background…
Spring Cleaning Your ivolunteer.com Account
Thousands of organizations are meeting the challenges of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19. We here at ivolunteer.com are no exception. With disinfecting wipes in hand, we’d like to offer two suggestions for “spring cleaning” your ivolunteer.com account while you wait for life and volunteer scheduling to get back to normal. Prune Your…
Recruiting Today’s Volunteer
Volunteer managers of churches and other organizations have a challenging, complex job–often with limited resources. We’ve found a useful article that may help you improve your volunteers’ engagement by identifying three distinct hats you will need to wear in recruitment efforts: https://wwv.group.com/childrens-ministry/blog/lead/3-leadership-hats-youll-need-wear-recruit-todays-volunteer/ An online volunteer signup process is one of the essential tools mentioned in…
Reviews on Capterra
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Scheduling More Than Just Volunteers
ivolunteer.com is dedicated to making your events run as smoothly as possible. We take in all our customers’ suggestions and comments and we strive to create the most seemless experience for everyone who organizes and manages volunteers, participants, parents, runners, and more. The best way to do that is having the ability to see how…
ivolunteer.com Free Trial
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Jedi Master To take a page from our favorite Jedi Master’s playbook, we have eliminated the ivolunteer.com trial and have replaced it with a free subscription. As always when we talk about free at ivolunteer.com we mean it. We don’t want any payment information from…
Your Volunteering Family
Your volunteering family is just as important as your nuclear family. Eventually your volunteers start to click together like puzzle pieces, making the best, most colorful jigsaw ever. It may be a little harder to keep them all in touch outside of volunteer season, because life gets in the way. However, there are lots of ways to…
Why We Do What We Do
As a volunteer, sometimes I catch myself in the middle of the chaos of the event I’m volunteering for, wondering why I signed up for this? It’s not until well after the event has ended, when I’m connecting with my fellow volunteers after the event, that I figure it out. Working together is part of…
Making the World More Awesome
We love helping make the world more awesome. Involved in various volunteerism, different charities, or even working for a company that prides itself on reaching out to the community is what the world needs to keep moving forward. Kid President makes a fantastic point that the world doesn’t change unless you do something to change…
New Event Checklist & Custom Database Fields
Ever wonder where to begin? Need help getting an event started? Here’s a helpful checklist to get you started! If you have finished the list and are ready take your event live, go back to your Event Details tab and click the “Activate” button. Your event is now visible on your Home Page. You can send your…