Tip of the Week September 15, 2025 In Volgistics, a volunteer’s Role in an assignment shows their relationship to the assignment. For example, a Role of Assigned means that the volunteer is actively serving while a Role of Substitute might mean the volunteer is available to fill in for other volunteers in that assignment. The
What You Need to Know About Volunteer Data Security
Volunteer data is the backbone of any successful program, but with increased digitalization comes greater responsibility. As organizations collect, store, and manage sensitive volunteer information, the risks of data breaches and compliance failures grow. Understanding the essentials of volunteer data security is crucial for protecting your volunteers, maintaining trust, and safeguarding your organization’s long-term success.
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Use the Contacts Tab to Record Secondary Contacts for Group Records
Tip of the Week September 8, 2025 If your organization uses group records, you can record the main contact’s name, address, phone number, and email on the Core tab of the group record. However, there may be times when you need to record additional contacts. In this case, you can create a new contact Kind
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Limit the Rights or Access to Volgistics for Specific System Operators
Tip of the Week September 1, 2025 If a Volgistics Account will utilize the services of system operators other than just the account’s Administrator(s), it may be important to define specific limits of the rights or access for those users. This way they aren’t able to, or don’t have to, manage more settings than exceeds
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Volunteering and the OBBB Medicaid Expansion — How Volgistics Can Help
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) — signed into law in July 2025 — introduces a new approach to Medicaid eligibility. Maintaining Medicaid access now requires meeting new work or volunteer hour requirements. Organizations must accurately track these hours to ensure volunteers retain their healthcare coverage. What the OBBB Medicaid Expansion Means for Volunteer-Driven
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Schedule Reminders and Confirmations
Tip of the Week August 25, 2025 There are a number of options to keep volunteers informed about their upcoming schedules. Schedule reminders can be set up to run a number of days before a shift or on a specific day of the month to help notify volunteers about their upcoming shifts. Schedule confirmations can
Prompt a Password Reset for System Operators
Tip of the Week August 18, 2025 Whether you’re assigning an operator a password that you want to make temporary, or your organization has security concerns and wants all users to update their login information, or you simply want to require specific users to update their credentials, it can be useful to prompt system operators
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Tips for preparing Volunteers to Deal with Sensitive Issues
Volunteers often encounter challenging situations. Depending on the industry, they may deal with individuals facing mental health crises, experiencing trauma, or navigating complex social issues. These situations can have an impact on both the volunteers and the individuals they serve. As a volunteer organizer, providing resources for sensitive issues can help volunteers feel confident and
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Keep Report Columns All on One Page
Tip of the Week August 11, 2025 If you’ve created a custom report in PDF format, you may find instances where some columns of information extend beyond the width of the page causing them to appear on subsequent pages. If this is the case, you can sometimes make all the columns appear on one page
Run Service Report for a Single Archived Volunteer Record
Tip of the Week August 4, 2025 There may be times you want to generate service reports for archived volunteer records. One way to do this is to create a custom Excel report that contains service information for all archived volunteers. Include Archived Records shows how to do this. Archived records also show automatically on
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