Volunteer Sign Up and Emergency Response Volunteers

Tendenci® - Volunteer Sign Up and Coordination through your web site

Volunteer Portal Self Registration:

You have motivated volunteers willing and able to help you. You need your volunteers to be able to sign up on your web site quickly and easily so you can manage the influx and coordinate them easily. Tendenci does that.

The most common benefits of signing up volunteers onling through your web site are:

1. First Responder Data Capture
2. Email notification management
3. Volunteer coordination through event registration (with limits)
4. Access to the right content that the content owner or an administrator has restricted to user only
5. Distributed Authoring - your volunteers are the ones entering the data subject to rapid workflow approval by coordinators

Volunteer Coordination Tools:

1. Electronic Newsletters
2. Event Registration to Limit Volunteers at specific locations / times. Reminder emails as volunteer slot approaches
3. First Responder data collection and emergency response notifications
4. Emergency Social Services data entry and emergency case management through the web.
5. Consolidation of volunteer calendars between different volunteer organizations working towards the same goal
6. Use job board to post volunteer positions needing to be filled - integrates with newsletter to quickly ask for volunteers!
7. Automatically Consolidate volunteer positions needed across multiple organizations
8. Accept Online Donations through your merchant account
9. RSS and PodCasting built in at the lowest levels helping volunteers filter for information overload
10. Ratings for evaluation of notification clarity - even in an emergency, particularly in an emergency, exactness of speech matters
11. Forums for lower priority communication
12. Article notification with podcasting to time shift audio updates for emergency personnel responding at different times

Many elements of Tendenci are ideal for handling distributed notifications and volunteer management. Setting up events with limited attendees is a great way to manage your volunteer resources so you have the PEOPLE you need, but also in the RIGHT LOCATION at the RIGHT TIME. One click to run the roster allows your volunteer coordinators to easily see who to expect.

And with Internet access checks-ins can be done at the door.

Note that you control if you want to allow self registration. Allowing self registration allows volunteers to sign up on your site and get either basic level access or "membership" level access at your descretion.

One additional benefit of web based organization management is for business continuity planning. When natural disasters strike your online presence might be all that is left for your membership to interact with. It is a thought none of us want to have, but through 9/11, the Madrid and London Bombings, the Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina we have seen time and time again that the Internet is the only thing left standing because it is geographically dispersed. Whether you use Tendenci or another product, it is imperative that continuity be a part of any disaster plan for volunteer organizations as well as infrastructure businesses. And organizations ARE critical infrastructure. We get that.

For more information about Tendenci's first responder capabilities, contact us today.

 

Tendenci® Allows Volunteers To
Sign up online and Make Donations
Through your Organization Web site

Electronic Notifications to Volunteers
Prioritized to First Responders FIRST

 

Consolidate Calendars and
Consolidate Volunteer Jobs
Lists Across
Multiple Organization Web Sites
For Better Resource Allocation

Example Consolidated Creative Calendar
for Houston Texas