The motivations and behaviors of volunteers are constantly shifting, and reliable volunteer data is essential to know where to focus your efforts. To help you plan with confidence, we’ve analyzed current research to bring you nine key statistics and trends shaping the volunteer landscape in 2026. Making sense of these changes is crucial, and it’s the kind
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Tip of the Week June 22, 2026 As you or other system operators use Volgistics’ reporting features, your Reports page may accumulate a large number of custom reports. Some of these may be automatic reports or other useful reports that will be used again in the future, while others may have been created just for
Tip of the Week June 15, 2026 By default, the Volunteer List page shows the Name, Tag, Group name, Street, City and Status fields in new trial accounts. However, you can customize the fields that are shown here to make this page more usable for your organization. To do this, you will need access to
Seasonal volunteering creates a predictable paradox. Holidays bring a volunteer surge of eager helpers ready to serve meals and wrap gifts, while slower months leave organizations scrambling to fill critical gaps. For volunteer managers, this rhythm feels less like a natural cycle and more like a constant balancing act. These seasonal patterns don’t have to
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Tip of the Week June 08, 2026 Your organization may have a fiscal year (also sometimes called a budgetary or financial year) that differs from a standard calendar year. While a calendar year is measured from January 1st to December 31st each year, a fiscal year may begin on the first day of any month,
Tip of the Week June 01, 2026 The Tags feature in Volgistics provides a useful way to temporarily mark multiple volunteer records so you can perform tasks for all of these records at once. Tag Functionality explains more about what tasks you can perform for tagged records. Here are some helpful things to keep in
Tip of the Week May 25, 2026 In VicNet, coordinators can easily fill openings with volunteers on a one-time basis. Scheduling a regular or repeating shift for a volunteer is a bit less obvious though. To do this, start by scheduling a volunteer for a one-time shift on the first date. Then, click the Edit
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Tip of the Week May 18, 2026 When manually scheduling volunteers, you can use the Qualified Volunteers checkbox to filter your volunteer list down to only those that are allowed to be scheduled for that Assignment. You can set the qualifications for each Assignment on its Rules tab. Qualifications on a volunteer’s Status, Role, Type,
Tip of the Week May 11, 2026 If your organization needs to keep track of when volunteers do not show up for scheduled assignments, Volgistics can help. The first step is to make sure all volunteer service for the date in question has been entered into the system. When this is done, you can create
Tip of the Week May 04, 2026 Volgistics includes features for matching volunteers and Assignments. Volunteers are considered as matching – or not matching – an assignment based on the selections on the Profile tabs for both the Assignment and the volunteer. The matching features can be a great way to find Assignments a particular
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