A New Way for Nonprofits to Expand
Their Volunteer Program.

We would like to understand what your goals are for growth. Is it to attract more volunteers? Increase participation by the volunteers you already have? Make the volunteers you already have much more effective? Free up time for your staff? We’ll work with you to help define and achieve your goals for growth. I can tell you that if your goal is to grow your volunteer base, you can assume an improvement of at least 20% in the first year. We’ve had many organizations that have doubled or even tripled their participation over 48 months. It’s all about the recipe!

We have many ways to track time and you can customize this from project to project. They include self-reported timesheets, assigning a default number of hours for working a particular job or completing a task, and checking in to shifts via the volunteer’s mobile phone or the organization’s kiosk. Awesome, right? The coolest thing is that this is all automated or volunteer-driven so it’s super easy on your staff to track time. There’s little to do but run a one-click report to measure the impact.

Of course they can! The modern volunteer demands transparency and control over their experience. This is true of volunteers of all ages. Having the ability to set and adjust their schedules is a must to attract and retain quality volunteers.

Yes. For some types of volunteering, it makes sense for a staff person to assign schedules to a volunteer based on their qualifications and schedule preferences. This is why VolunteerMatters always allows an administrator to make assignments and even provides the ability to restrict self-sign-up on certain projects in favor of admin-controlled scheduling. 

VolunteerMatters was designed as a mobile-first web application. What the heck does that mean? It means that our software runs in a web browser and works equally as well from a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. Additionally, it means that the full suite of functionality is available to all volunteers and administrators regardless of the type of device they are on. Cool, right? We also do not require your volunteers or staff to download an app for any of it. When you are promoting volunteer opportunities via social media, sending out targeted invitations, or when sending notifications, reminders and requests your volunteers can have immediate access no matter what the device.

You betcha! VolunteerMatters integrates with Intellicorp and Sterling Volunteers, two of the best criminal background check services in the business. Our systems talk to theirs so the experience for the volunteer is completely seamless and the volunteer’s qualifications are completely centralized to make sure all volunteers comply with your policies. You can even set background check policies on a job-by-job basis as well as wet rules for how often those checks need to be repeated - and the system takes care of the rest!

Yes. Baby boomers, Gen X-ers, Millennials, and Gen Z volunteers have more in common than they don’t. They want to engage with causes for which they have a passion to make a difference. They want their time to be valued and appreciated. Our recipe and tools consider volunteers of every generation to keep things simple and focused on the most important aspect of volunteerism - the volunteers.