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Absolutely. In today's market, where job openings are far and few inbetween, it would certainly benefit you to do some volunteer work. How so? Skills: What better way to keep your skills sharpened or learn new ones? I can't think of a better forum to learn about new software and updated networks...
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We recently moved to a new town-centre location, which has brought us many new volunteers with a wide range of skills. We need to organise their information - their skills and interests, contact info, the team(s) they're allocated to, if they've had an induction/handbook/fire training etc etc...
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Hello everyone, I took on the responsibility of creating a new MS Access database for Volunteers event/hour tracking. Here’s what I have so far: 3 tables (Personal, event, Personal_event). The personal tables hold contact information and an “hours” field to record their hours worked...
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In the late 1990s, I co-wrote The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook with Susan Ellis. It is a free manual to help organizations involve online volunteers, as well as to use online tools to support all volunteers. I am currently revising this Guidebook. If you ever have been a volunteer, OR if you have worked...
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Just to let you know, TechSoup has recently updated a terrific manual for helping nonprofits manage IT and tech volunteers: Working with Technical Volunteers: A Manual for NPOs . The manual has been updated to include the latest tech specs to ask your potential volunteers about during interviews, a comprehensive...
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Often, when you do an online search on a topic, the first page that comes up in a search tool such as Google is Wikipedia (at least for search phrases in English and German). Also, many people go straight to Wikipedia to get a briefing about a particular topic before they look for more detailed information...
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Hi all! I see there's been a lot of posts about volunteer management programs, but I thought I'd make one specifically about Salesforce. I work at Goodwill in San Francisco, and we don't currently have a volunteer program, but my job is to create one. We already track our donors in Salesforce...
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Okay, I'm going to try to reply to this message for a third time -- last two replies were lost when I tried to backspace (attention TechSoup -- you've got a bug in this new system!). It's a great idea to recruit members for an advisory team to help you with the planning and development of...
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Hello - I am a nonprofit Executive Director with a recently merged much larger agency. We utilize 1500 volunteers in our programs, but have our IR serviced by a paid service. I would like to gather IT experts in the area to form an advisory team of sorts to help us with planning, development of web 2...