Tip of the Week December 04, 2023 A common question for the support team is how to find the date a volunteer first served. While Volgistics doesn’t have a built-in way to track this information, there are ways you can find it using Excel. The basic idea is to run a report that includes all
Tag: Volunteer service
Making Assignments Inactive
Tip of the Week November 06, 2023 There may be times when your organization no longer needs to track an Assignment record. 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, but the Assignment information
The Value of Volunteer Time: Everything You Need to Know
Volunteers give their time to serve your organization. Knowing the value of the volunteer hour can help you better appreciate their dedication and hard work. Why Does Knowing the Value of Volunteer Time Matter? Your volunteers are a valuable resource — you already know that without attaching a number to their work. However, understanding their
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Create a Set to find small or large service entries
Tip of the Week November 28, 2022 At times you may find abnormal service entries that have been created. For example, if you use the VicTouch module, sometimes a volunteer will sign-in for an assignment, reenter their PIN to check the schedule, and then click the sign-out button out of habit. Or if volunteers enter
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Compare 2021 Volunteer Service to 2019
Many organizations like to print year-end or quarterly reports showing how volunteer service numbers have changed from one year to the next. However, many organizations also consider 2020 to be too much of an anomaly, and prefer to compare this year to 2019 instead. To get this information, we recommend printing a service summary report
Use floating subtotals to track service for custom times
Tip of the Week December 07, 2020 In addition to regular service hour entries, Volgistics automatically keeps a total for month-to-date (MTD), fiscal year-to-date (YTD), and life hours for volunteers. There are also two floating subtotal fields that you can use to keep track of service performed during time periods that you select. The floating
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Guide to Choosing the Best Volunteer Management Software
Your volunteer organization wouldn’t be the same without its volunteers. These are the folks using their free time to show up at your door, support your causes, and bring your mission to life. Selecting the right volunteer management system for your organization ensures you create the best volunteer experience for them. Plus, these systems simplify
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Tip of the Week January 21, 2019
Track the total number of shifts or visits volunteers serve 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
Tip of the Week February 19, 2018
Include the Source, Batch, or Directive fields for service entries on Service Details Reports Service Detail reports are designed to provide specific information about service entries that appear on the volunteer’s Service tab. When you create a custom Service Detail report and select to list volunteers on the Options tab, you can include volunteer fields
Tip of the Week November 6, 2017
Use the Date of Last Activity field to see when a volunteer served last Volgistics makes it easy to see the last date a volunteer served with the Date of Last Activity field recorded in the Statistics box on the Core tab of the volunteer record. You enable this field to be shown by following