Make Assignments inactive to remove them from view while keeping service information There may be times when your organization no longer needs to track an Assignment. In these cases, the Assignment can be deleted—but this will also delete the Assignment details from volunteer service records. The date and hours will remain for the service entry,
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
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Tip of the Week March 17, 2014
Use the email validity icon to determine if a volunteer’s email is accurate When you send email through Volgistics, the system automatically tracks if the recipient’s email address is valid and uses an email validity icon on the Core tab of the volunteer record to identify its status. By default, a volunteer’s email address is
Tip of the Week March 10, 2014
Turn Information Buttons Off for a System Operator Information buttons in the Volgistics account can now be disabled on an operator-by-operator basis. Learn more in our Blog.
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,
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Tip of the Week March 3, 2014
Restore Deleted Volunteers Feature Released Deleted volunteer records can now be restored within 5 days after they are deleted. Learn more in our Blog.
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
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Tip of the Week February 24, 2014
Mark batches of Awards as presented at same time using Tickler feature If your organization uses Awards as a way to recognize your volunteers, you may have certain dates when you present the awards to your volunteers, such as a recognition banquet, or the end of your fiscal year. In this case, you can quickly
Tip of the Week February 17, 2014
Search for a specific item in your account’s Event Log or a volunteer’s Notes tab Each Volgistics account has an Event Log that records key events. Even though every event in your account is not tracked due to size limitations, the Event Log can still become quite long, which makes it hard to find one
Tip of the Week February 10, 2014
See how many submissions an application has received Many organizations that use the online application forms want to know how many applications they have received. This can be useful for internal information, or for completing reports for grants and other external agencies. While you can create Sets to identify the number of volunteers who have