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 +…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Every event starts with one task. The tasks are where your signup sheets are located. You can have multiple tasks in an event, which help you break down and section off your event as needed. This can be helpful if you have a long event spanning several weeks or months. If you have several different…
Is it overwhelming trying to figure out how you will begin recruiting volunteers for your upcoming event? Here are some tips on the steps you need to go through to begin your recruiting process: 1. Clearly identify volunteer needs and position descriptions. 2. Know what you have to offer – the “cost” and benefits of…
Volunteer Managers and volunteers are change agents for your organization. Investing in them and the tools they use can take your organization to the next level.! Online volunteer management software, like ivolunteer.com, is a great start. The online software will assist in allowing Volunteer Managers to collect as much data from volunteers, construct job descriptions for…
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…
Just wanted to take some time to tell you how we are “Using ivolunteer.com.” We are a Catholic parish of more than 4500 families. We use ivolunteer.com for signing-up volunteers for our faith formation programs, outreach programs and fundraising events. Specifically, the program is used for all of the following to sign up: faith teachers,…
Our online volunteer management software allows you to easily collect data from your volunteers on signup. ivolunteer.com has many types of custom prompts that can be required or optional for your participants to complete when signing up for a slot. Technically, there is no limit to the number of custom prompts that users can collect…
Are you having trouble getting your donors to volunteer? Check out this blog with helpful hints that may ease your mind about asking. https://donordreams.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/there-is-a-recipe-to-follow-when-recruiting-volunteers/
