Tip of the Week February 10, 2025 If you need to send similar content to volunteers over and over, you’re not alone. Whether it’s onboarding and training material, thank-you notes, birthday messages, or newsletters, a lot of the content you send out might look surprisingly similar to messages you’ve composed and sent before. Rather than
Edit a Volunteer’s Sign-In Time for VicTouch
Tip of the Week February 3, 2025 If you use the VicTouch time clock, there may be times when volunteers arrive for duty and begin serving without remembering to sign-in. If this occurs and you find out before the volunteer leaves, you can easily correct this. First, have the volunteer sign-in through VicTouch. If it
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Track the Total Number of Shifts or Visits Volunteers Serve
Tip of the Week January 27, 2025 Organizations may want to track how many times their volunteers have served, rather than just how many hours they’ve served. Volgistics makes this possible with Service Measures. These are an ideal feature for recording special types of service performed, and can be easily configured to keep track of
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Find Volgistics W-9 Form Online
Tip of the Week January 20, 2025 Many organizations are required to have an up-to-date W-9 form from companies that they do business with. For your convenience, we update our W-9 form regularly and you can access and save and/or print the form at any time online. Please go to the following address if you
Secure Your Account with Two-Factor Authentication
Tip of the Week January 13, 2025 Your volunteers trust you with their personal information. To help keep it safe from unauthorized access, we recommend turning on two-factor authentication for your account. With this feature turned on, you’ll still enter your account number, email address, and password as normal. Then, you’ll receive a code by
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Review the Basics in Volgistics’ Getting Started Guide
Tip of the Week January 6, 2025 For new or prospective Volgistics users, or for experienced users who would like to freshen up on the core settings and features of their account, Volgistics offers a comprehensive Getting Started Guide. This guide provides an easy-to-navigate tour of the system and covers numerous introductory topics explaining fundamental
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5 Tips for Finding Aquarium Volunteers

Anyone who owns or runs an aquarium knows proper operation requires a lot of people and help. After all, there’s tons to do. While hardworking employees play a massive role in an aquarium’s success, your team can always use additional support. That’s where volunteers come in. What do volunteers do at an aquarium? They can
How Animal Shelters Can Get Volunteers Involved

Many animal shelters are non-profits, and even those that do make money aren’t exactly rolling in cash. That’s why volunteers are so important. Kindhearted people who are willing to help out at a shelter for no personal gain are often the reason that shelters can keep their doors open and help more animals. And while
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Find a Volunteer’s Last Access to VicNet
Tip of the Week December 16, 2024 If you use the VicNet module to allow volunteers to login to the secure portal to do things such as update their contact information, download forms, receive messages, view or record service, and more, you may sometimes need to see when a volunteer signed into the module last.
5 Tips for Better Communication With Volunteers

If you run a nonprofit, you likely rely heavily on volunteers to keep doing what you’ve been doing. However, managing volunteers can be challenging at times, and you want to make sure you can trust your volunteers to get the job done. Given that formal volunteer rates have dropped in recent years, you also want
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