Everyone
loves volunteers. They are selfless individuals who dedicate their
time, spirit and energy to your cause. However, collecting the
information in an accurate manner, organizing their efforts, and making
sure they remain interested is a full-time job. We feel that the Patriot donation management system
makes a difference in this effort by taking the same powerful system we
use to track contributors and applying it to our volunteer module.
Online Registration & Sign-Up Form
Patriot will generate a Volunteer registration form that you can
easily add to your existing Website. It contains a list of the areas
where you would like assistance (e.g. phone calling, literature
dropping, etc.). Registrants can then select from that list when they
complete the registration form, so you already know how they would like
to assist you. To add an extra level of control, you can accept or
decline each volunteer's application. This gives you full control over
the selection process. Of course, our system handles all of the email
communication for you throughout the entire process by letting the
registrant know when they have been approved or declined.
Let Those Volunteers Blog!
Each approved volunteer (or any another other Patriot user) can
create their own blog as well as comment on the blogs of other users.
This free feature really comes to life when your volunteers step
forward and help to organize and motivate each other with their plans
and ideas. Watch as your volunteer community takes on a new life and
begins to spawn ideas and fresh thinking while simultaneously improving
communication. You can also let people outside of Patriot read specific
blogs by publishing the RSS feed on your Website. This is optional, but
can be a huge benefit if you have the right kind of person creating
in-demand articles on a consistent basis.
Simplified Volunteer Coordination
Volunteers are managed by a "volunteer coordinator" who has all of
the tools required to track and maintain these helpful individuals.
They can accept the incoming applications, as well as refuse those that
are undesirable. Moreover, to help with organizing their efforts, the
event manager can create tasks that volunteers can claim as their own.
Note that the volunteer coordinator and the event manager can assign
tasks to specific individuals. By using the task management system
built into Patriot, you can keep your volunteers on task and well
organized.
Donation Tracking
If you choose, you can let each volunteer have their own donation
form that they can email to friends or post on their Website, and
communicate to potential donors. To make Each donation received via
this form will be directly attributed to the volunteer and their
efforts. We also publish a leaderboard so the volunteers can see where
they rank with their peers and their fundraising efforts. You can take
this idea to the next level and reward them for the amount
of funds they drive to the organization.
For example, you could give volunteers a free t-shirt if they bring in
$1,000 or more. Perhaps let them participate with the weekly leadership
meetings if they bring in over $10,000. You might even let the
volunteer meet the candidate or take a place of honor if they can raise
$100,000. We do the tracking, and you choose how you would like to
reward the behavior. What could be better? Well, how about that this
capability is free with any Patriot subscription! Your competition
doesn't stand a chance with this feature in play.