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Hi all,

I was just wondering if any of you knew of some quality volunteer management that are widely used.
One of the important features we need is time logging of volunteers, that is a volunteer can log there
hours by themselves.

I know CiviVolunteer addresses the issue in its initial specs but I have no idea what the progress of this
project is. Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks for your time.

Regards

Thanks for the response.

How does one find organizations that have similar needs? Is there a place where I can post to see if there is much interest for this?

Regards

I have a client interested in tracking volunteer hours, as well as volunteer interests. I know they don't have the budget to contribute in a big way with civivolunteer right now, so I'm wondering what approaches other orgs have taken to tracking volunteer hours?

I saw a forum post from a few years ago that suggested using civicontribute with a special contribution type.  I'm thinking of using an activity record with a few custom fields.

The biggest challenge i see right now would be having on the fly reporting that tallies the number of volunteer hours contributed by a single volunteer, or by many volunteers.

one of the reasons this client wants to track volunteer hours is that some employers of their volunteers match hours with dollars, so being able to submit those hours records to the employer is worth money.

Using an activity record, they can certainly tally the hours up manually, and for this organization that will probably work in the short term (we're talking dozens of volunteers not thousands), but I'd love to see if we could implement in a way that helps explore this functionality and is perhaps slightly future proof.

I know, I know, code is king, cash is queen (or vice versa), this project has no budget for custom code.

I work with small and growing nonprofits to help them increase donor engagement. My company also helps nonprofits build dynamic websites using Joomla. A need like CiviVolunteer is one that recurs with almost every group we work with. We would love to be part of a project to help it become a reality. I have several clients who I believe would be willing to test the program.

Thanks for the response.

How does one find organizations that have similar needs? Is there a place where I can post to see if there is much interest for this?

Regards

This entire gig is less than 140 hours, so this client probably can't fund development of CiviVolunteer.  But I will certainly keep my eyes open for one that can.  Perhaps there is an institutional funder that would be interested?