Match Volunteer Skills with Needs

VolunteerMatters enables your organization to publish an online catalog of volunteer opportunities with ease. Volunteer coordinators can enter opportunities individually or in bulk providing dates, start and end times, descriptions, and the number of people required for that volunteering need. Volunteers can browse and search volunteer opportunities in list or calendar views to help find needs that match their interests.

Volunteers Self-Sign-Up

Allowing volunteers to find and sign up for volunteer opportunities to best fit their interests and skills improves the volunteer’s experience and effectiveness. Volunteers can easily narrow the catalog of opportunities by category. With one click, they can see all detail on the volunteer opportunity including dates, times, location, and description. If so configured, they can even see the names of other volunteers who have already signed up for the job. They are presented with a clear “Sign-up” button to assign themselves to that volunteer opportunity. When signing up, a volunteer can be empowered to not only assign themselves to the opportunity but it can be configured to allow them to indicate they will be bringing along one or more friends.

If a volunteer has a scheduling conflict, they can always return to the opportunity to self—withdraw their assignment. Administrators can set rules on how close to an event date an individual can self-withdraw without contacting a volunteer coordinator directly.

Administrators Match Volunteers with Opportunities

Some organizations choose to centrally manage all volunteer assignments through their coordinators. Others may want this capability in conjunction with the volunteer’s ability to self-sign-up. In either case, VolunteerMatters makes it very easy to centrally assign the best volunteers for the job. Coordinators may easily review all open and filled volunteer opportunities to see where there are openings and where volunteer needs have been met. When managing a volunteer opportunity a coordinator can see details on current assignees, remove assignments, and add new assignments. When adding a new volunteer, a coordinator can search by any contact or biographical attribute to find the best match. For example, one could search for any active volunteer that lives in a specific area, has experience as a carpenter, and is available to work weekends.