One of the main ways people have been engaging with their peers and organizations for decades is through volunteering. Many organizations already have members who volunteer, especially at the local level, but quite often this data is not properly managed or tracked and goes unnoticed at the national level. This potentially leaves untold numbers of highly engaged members in the dark and their potential in the organization or community untapped.

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Volunteer Manager benefits

Volunteer Manager allows your organization to build, manage, and provide a complete volunteering program for your constituents to not only increase engagement in your community but also in the real world.

Volunteer Manager makes it easy for Admins to:

• create volunteering opportunities,
• match volunteers to those opportunities, and
• track and record the participation of your volunteers.

Volunteer Manager enables your organization to:

• Increase engagement through volunteering (e.g., committees, chapters, working at events).
• Track volunteering at all levels.

Volunteer Manager in your Higher Logic community

Integration write-backs

If your community is integrated with a third-party database, some volunteering activities in your community can be written to that database during the standard activity-sync process.

• Navigate to Settings > External Content > Activity Sync in the Admin interface in order to manage writeback activities on the Subscriptions tab.

To learn about the activity-sync process, see Member Activity Sync.