Inspire your volunteers with video stories through e-mail options in your online volunteer management software. Keep them engaged to foster long term loyalty and support. You will not regret it. ivolunteer.com The best way to sign up your volunteers online
Non-profits successful events often become quarterly, annual or a series of event. ivolunteer.com allows Volunteer Managers to reuse past events so you do not need to recreate the wheel. Reusing Past Events The best way to reuse a past event is to copy it. This creates a new event with the same sign up sheets…
Confirmation Emails There are two kinds of Confirmation Emails, Required Confirmation and Confirmation Notification. Required Confirmation The purpose of Required Confirmation emails is primarily to verify a volunteer’s email address. The volunteer is not confirmed for the slots they signed up for until they click on the link in the Required Confirmation email. Since ivolunteer.com…
Assessing needs is one of the fundamental roles of fundraisers. Fundraising is a term used for those who solicit donations to organizations so consider that Volunteer Managers are fundraisers too. Volunteer Managers provide funds to a non-profit through the in-kind donation of time. Volunteers are donors. What do they want and need from your organization? …
Diversity adds so much to an organizations reach within a community. How can a Volunteer Manager expand their reach with a static database? The answer is simple, you can’t. Online volunteer management software will allow Volunteer Managers to open their volunteer pool by creating online volunteer sign up’s that can be shared through e-mail, social…
New Email Features to Our Online Volunteer Management Software Invitation Emails You can now send email invitations to participants for your event from the new Send Email tab. The Send Email tab is located within the event, and is where you can send and schedule invitations to the event, reminder emails and thank you emails….
Why would we do anything we are not passionate about? Big joke, we know as many people spend endless hours a week doing things that we do not enjoy. The point is, when we have a choice we want to do something that either we are passionate about or that we know with help us…
Assigning Event Administrators To Groups Organization Administrators are now able to assign Event Administrators access to specific participant groups in the Database. Those Event Administrators will then be able to send emails to the volunteers in the groups they are assigned to from the Send Email tab of their events. To assign groups to an…
It happens all the time! We take a job, buy something online, or order something from a menu and then it happens…"Well this is not what I expected at all!" This could be a positive experience or a negative experience but either way there is a disconnect with your understanding of a product/service and the…
Online volunteer management allows users to collect additional data from volunteers. ivolunteer.com has custom prompts that require users to complete the areas before finalizing sign up. There is not a technical limit to the number of custom prompts that users can collect and report. Custom prompts can include items as simple as t-shirt size or…
Training is an underutilized tool when it pertains to volunteers. The difficult part is when can a Volunteer Manager find the time to train? Volunteers are there to help but they do not go through the rigorous interview process, submit resumes, and may not even know much about your organization, yet they are your ambassadors. …
Managing volunteers is always about the “what if” scenario. Planning ahead is a key to being prepared for success regardless of the stumbles along the way. What if we do not have enough volunteers, what if we have too many volunteers, what if we are not as busy as expected? Be prepared for the least…
