Choosing volunteer management software can feel overwhelming with so many options on the market. The Volgistics team has designed this guide to help volunteer managers, program directors, and HR professionals cut through the noise. You’ll find a three-step framework for evaluating software, practical formulas for calculating ROI, and guidance on selecting a solution that fits
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Volunteer management has transformed from stacks of paper, manual logs, and time-draining processes to streamlined, digital solutions that empower organizations to do more with less. Understanding this evolution is key for volunteer managers, program directors, and HR professionals to build efficient, engaging, and scalable volunteer programs. The Challenges of Paper-Based Volunteer Management Before the digital
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) — signed into law in July 2025 — introduces a new approach to Medicaid eligibility. Maintaining Medicaid access now requires meeting new work or volunteer hour requirements. Organizations must accurately track these hours to ensure volunteers retain their healthcare coverage. What the OBBB Medicaid Expansion Means for Volunteer-Driven
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Tip of the Week July 17, 2023 When you’re searching for specific groups of volunteer records, the Basic options on the Volunteers page provide a powerful search tool. For example, to locate just Active Adult volunteers, select Active from the Status dropdown and Adult from the Type dropdown, and then click the All link. However,
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Link to web sites for volunteer records from within Volgistics Volunteer records in Volgistics have a Web site field on the Core tab. On group records, this field can be used to record the organization’s web site. On individual volunteer records, you can record the volunteer’s personal web page or their page on sites such
Disable VicNet access for specific volunteer records If your organization uses VicNet, there may be times when you want to disable access for some volunteers. You control who can access VicNet overall by using the Status, and the Type and Flag settings on the VicNet Ground Rules page. However, there may be times when you
Message history is available on History tab of volunteer record. When you use Volgistics’ features to send email, Vic mail, or text messages to volunteers, a record of the messages sent to each volunteer is kept on his or her History tab. You can view this record to see if the message shows as being
Keep a local back-up of your volunteer data. Volgistics includes the ability to create a local back-up of your volunteer data using Excel spreadsheet reports. One reason to save this data to your local system is to access to your volunteer data in a situation where your Internet connection is down. However, there is another
Print service report for a single archived volunteer record There may be times you want to print service reports for archived volunteer records. One way to do this is to create a custom Excel report that contains service information for all archived volunteers. Help Topic 1997 shows how to do this. Archived records also show
Use the Find fields, and the Advanced options, to locate volunteer records. When you’re searching for specific groups of volunteer records, the Basic options on the Volunteers page provide a powerful search tool. For example, to locate just Active Adult volunteers, select “Active” from the Status dropdown and “Adult” from the Type dropdown, and then
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