We are interested in finding a way to streamline our system to communicate with and schedule volunteers. Does anyone have suggestions for software that allows:
• volunteers to see a list of shifts that need to be filled (i.e. performances that need ushers; gift shop attendants, tour guides)
• allows email reminders to be sent to volunteers signed up for shifts (i.e. easily connects to contact database)
• assembles and tabulates volunteer hours served
Has anyone used Artifax to accomplish this? With what success and/or limitations? I am also looking for info from past conferences, forums so please feel free to point me to an existing discussion if you would be so kind.
Thank you!
We do this with a combination of Tessitura and Artifax, i.e. the Volunteers are all in Tess, linked to their Entities in Artifax via an Attribute, and we run various custom reports (in Tess) on hours, calculate rewards, etc. We pull e-mails (all contact info, really) from Tessitura
There's no way for Vols to see shifts that need to be filled, for now at least, though the next version of Artifax may bring that closer.