Volunteer Management Software for Festivals, Spring Carnivals, and Other Large Events
Easy volunteer management software is key to organizing your large event! Whether it's 50 or 1,500 volunteers you need for your festival, fundraiser, charity race, or spring carnival -- volunteer management software offering simple online scheduling and signups is a modern day necessity to managing jobs, shifts, and volunteer information.
Here are some templates, guides and helpful resources for coordianting your volunteers and saving TIME & ENERGY doing so!
1. Ask for help! Let volunteers know how they can help by using volunteer management software to setup spots by time and category. You can organize your event by shifts (when you need people), or by jobs (what you need them to do), i.e. registration, set-up, concessions, ticket sales, clean-up.
Our newly updated Help article illustrates these options for you and guides you through the process: Configuring Large Events in VolunteerSpot
Sample Sign Up Sheets for Large Event (Organizer View):
2. Recruit volunteers using all your communication channels, including social media! Be creative and send out a unique call for volunteers and their friends to help make your event a success!
5 Trends in Volunteer Recruitment
Social Media Timelines & Strategies
How to Invite Volunteers and Create Sharble Links to your Online Sign Up Sheets
3. Get inpsired! Check out how others have succeeded with VolunteerSpot's free and easy volunteer managmement software!
VolunteerSpotlight: Tara Redavid, Festival Sustainability and Nonprofit Coordinator
Festivals Using VolunteeerSpot
4. Sit back and relax! With VolunteerSpot, volunteers can sign up at their convenience 24/7 from their computer or smartphone. Organizers can check the status of their sign ups real-time, print reports, message volunteers with updates and more! VolunteerSpot also boosts volunteer participation by issuing automatic confirmation and reminder messages regarding a volunteer's committment. Take a video tour and run a demo today!
