Secure Your Account with Two-Factor Authentication

Tip of the Week January 13, 2025 Your volunteers trust you with their personal information. To help keep it safe from unauthorized access, we recommend turning on two-factor authentication for your account. With this feature turned on, you’ll still enter your account number, email address, and password as normal. Then, you’ll receive a code by

Review the Basics in Volgistics’ Getting Started Guide

Tip of the Week January 6, 2025 For new or prospective Volgistics users, or for experienced users who would like to freshen up on the core settings and features of their account, Volgistics offers a comprehensive Getting Started Guide. This guide provides an easy-to-navigate tour of the system and covers numerous introductory topics explaining fundamental

5 Tips for Finding Aquarium Volunteers

5 tips for finding aquarium volunteers

Anyone who owns or runs an aquarium knows proper operation requires a lot of people and help. After all, there’s tons to do. While hardworking employees play a massive role in an aquarium’s success, your team can always use additional support. That’s where volunteers come in.  What do volunteers do at an aquarium? They can

How Animal Shelters Can Get Volunteers Involved

How Animal Shelters Can Get Volunteers Involved

Many animal shelters are non-profits, and even those that do make money aren’t exactly rolling in cash. That’s why volunteers are so important. Kindhearted people who are willing to help out at a shelter for no personal gain are often the reason that shelters can keep their doors open and help more animals.  And while

Find a Volunteer’s Last Access to VicNet

Tip of the Week December 16, 2024 If you use the VicNet module to allow volunteers to login to the secure portal to do things such as update their contact information, download forms, receive messages, view or record service, and more, you may sometimes need to see when a volunteer signed into the module last.

5 Tips for Better Communication With Volunteers

5 tips for better communication with volunteers

If you run a nonprofit, you likely rely heavily on volunteers to keep doing what you’ve been doing. However, managing volunteers can be challenging at times, and you want to make sure you can trust your volunteers to get the job done. Given that formal volunteer rates have dropped in recent years, you also want

5 National Scholarships for Volunteering You Can Apply For

Five national scholarships for volunteering you can apply for

Volunteering is one of the few things in life that many people do without any other ulterior motives. Volunteers give their time and energy to benefit others, animals, or the environment — and expect nothing in return.  However, if you’re a regular volunteer, your hard work might just pay off, as some institutions have scholarships

Go to the Schedule Tab of an Assignment From the Schedule Page

Tip of the Week December 9, 2024 There are different ways to view the schedule in Volgistics to match the rendering that fits your needs the best. For example, if you want to view the schedule for your entire organization, you can select Schedule from the menu. Or, if you want to view the schedule

Ultimate Guide To Corporate Partnerships For Nonprofits

Guide to Corporate Partnerships for Nonprofits

If you manage a nonprofit, you know how vital external contributions can be. Corporate giving makes up a valuable part of those contributions — in 2019, charitable contributions from corporations amounted to about $449.6 billion.  What if you want to develop a permanent, mutually beneficial partnership with a local corporation or business? Building corporate-nonprofit partnerships