Animal Welfare Professionals

Hello! 

Anybody have opinions on what is the best volunteer program to use? We are a shelter who has around 650 current profiles and need to make sure whatever program we use is easy for volunteers to use to sign up and easy for staff to see the schedule, preferably without having to login each time. Currently using Volgistics and it's not great. 

#DataandTechnology

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Jordyn Katzmann
Adoptions Counselor
Furry Friends Refuge
IA
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Oh my ...you are fortunate to have so many folks involved!. We are small, rural and cannot sustain even  a handful of consistent volunteers for anything. not for the lack of trying. It is a local problem. Several local non profits compete for the spare time of a small pool of  candidates.

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Rochelle Hamp
Executive Director
Headwaters Animal Shelter
MN
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We used to use Volgistics and switched to Better Impact. 

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Mandy Evans
Better Together Animal Alliance
Ponderay ID
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Have you been able to do bulk text messaging using Better Impact?  We have the standard version so not many bells / whistles but was curious if it had that type of function.  Thank you..

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LeAnn Melichar
Lead dog Training Committee
Humane Society for Boone County
IN
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-07-2024 09:09 AM
From: Mandy Evans
Subject: New Volunteer Programming

We used to use Volgistics and switched to Better Impact. 

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Mandy Evans
Better Together Animal Alliance
Ponderay ID
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We are in the process of switching from Volgistics to BetterInpact. We are still learning the database and working out kinks from the switch, but it seems much more user friendly. 

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Erin Robinson
Foster Coordinator
Licking County Humane Society
OH
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