VolunteerMatch

This page was last updated on:08/26/2008

Using VolunteerMatch makes recruiting volunteers easy. With this FREE web service, you can put your organization's volunteer opportunities online. Then, when a volunteer searches for opportunities on the VolunteerMatch web site, they will find yours listed.

VolunteerMatch is a nonprofit, online service that helps interested volunteers get involved with community service organizations throughout the United States. In order to provide volunteers with opportunities in Northern Arizona, the Nonprofit Resource Center encourages all community service organizations (nonprofit and tax-exempt) to register on the VolunteerMatch site. Qualifying organizations include all charitable, civic, social, educational, governmental, and political organizations. VolunteerMatch requires organizations to submit their EIN, employer identification number, to verify their tax-exempt status. Registering as a VolunteerMatch Guest Account is FREE and easy. By following the instructions below, you are automatically a Guest Account.

Instructions for registering your organization with VolunteerMatch

    1) Click HERE to register. 
    2) After you agree to the "Terms and Conditions," you will enter information about yourself as an account administrator and your organization.
    3) Then you will have an opportunity to list your volunteer opportunities. 

Register now and list your volunteer needs so you can begin to benefit from this online volunteer matching system as soon as possible.

Tips for volunteer management:

- Be prepared when they walk through your door
- Recognize volunteer efforts often with thank you notes
- Share the great things your volunteers do with the community
- Ask for the volunteers input on how to improve the service they provide
- Recognize the volunteers efforts often with small tokens of apperception
- If they ask how they can help, let them, even if it is something you can do yourself more quickly
- Treat them like a regular employee
- Train volunteers on office procedure
- Share expectation: on time, where to call if they are going to be absent
- Invite to conferences and special trainings
- Have a volunteer folder that includes:
......... Basic information included on any application
......... List of skills volunteer can share
......... Hours they are available
......... Minimum requirements