Improve Volunteer Retention by Matching Volunteers and Assignments

How to use Volgistics to implement a recruitment strategy outlined in Energize Inc.’s Everyone Ready® online training program. Volgistics provides an excellent tool to manage and track your volunteers, and there are many other first-rate resources available that can help you with the “how-to” aspects of growing and retaining your volunteer base. One of these

Turn Information Buttons Off for a System Operator

Information buttons in the Volgistics account can now be disabled on an operator-by-operator basis. To help new System Operators become familiar with the system, Volgistics has information buttons throughout the account that have a brief explanation of the field or feature. Quite often, these will link to help topics that have more information. For example,

Restore Deleted Volunteers Feature Released

There may be times when volunteer records are deleted from the system accidentally. To address this, Volgistics released a new feature that allows you to recover these records within 5 days after they have been deleted. Now, as long as a System Operator’s rights allow them to delete volunteer records, they can also restore records

New VicTouch Feature for Group Sign-in

Group leaders can enter the number of volunteers serving in VicTouch and have this information automatically added to the service entry for the group. If you use group records in your account and use the VicTouch module, your group leaders can now enter the number of volunteers serving in the group when they sign-in through

New Travel Time Merit Hours Feature

The Travel Time Merit Hours feature allows you to add volunteer service to recognize time spent traveling to volunteer. Volgistics has always had a feature to use Merit Hours to add time to a volunteer’s regular service hours automatically. This is useful in situations where you want to award extra service because the volunteer served