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…
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…
Points of Light News Digest – March 25, 2016 Teri Kelsall was recognized by L’Oréal Paris and Points of Light as a 2015 Women of Worth honoree for her extraordinary efforts helping veteran entrepreneurs on their quest to become tomorrow’s high-impact business leaders. The mother of a fallen Navy SEAL, Teri understands the drive and…
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? …
This is a great article and video for Volunteer Managers and Fundraisers to share with their Board of Directors. Click here to read the article.
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…
Volunteer Managers wear many hats. This is a great uplifting article on ways to start the New Year right and also see how incredibly important you are to the success of the organization. Assessment tools for team building
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/
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…
