CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

We have a few upcomming events where we'd like to have only volunteers register online - in these circumstances, we could have volunteers use the regular event registration process with a participant type of 'Volunteer' or we could use CiviVolunteer.  Either way,volunteers should be able to select the day(s), times & roles they are available to do (easy in CiviVolunteer, not sure about event registration).

Automatic Email Reminders - based on the first shift/event volunteer date a volunteer would select (events does this, does civivolunteer?)

Easily email volunteer sub-groups - Send email to a sub-set of the registered of volunteers based on their shift, volunteer date, or volunteer assignment

Print out volunteer sign-in/sign-out sheets, in alpha-order grouped by date and/or role

Track volunteer involvement - easily see how many times a person volunteered and for what kind of positions and events for targeted solicitation (for new volunteer opportunities and fundraising) This is not necessarily based on qty of time, as one person who volunteered 4 different events for 2 hours is more likely to volunteer than someone who volunteered one day for 8 hours.

Another concern with CiviVolunteer is different volunteer profile fields for different events.  Some events we provide t-shirts, some we don't - not sure we want to ask t-shirt size if none will be available.  I hope this becomes a select-able profile (instead of reserved) in the future per event (or even per role).