Volunteer Guide
This guide is organized around what your affiliate is trying to accomplish with volunteers — recruiting them, running great events, keeping accurate records, and recognizing their contribution.
The sections below mirror the natural lifecycle of a volunteer program. Most coordinators will spend their day in Recruiting, Running Events, and Managing Records. Setup work in Building Your Program is mostly one-time. For Volunteers documents the experience from the volunteer's side, useful when you're explaining things to your community.
Sections
- Building Your Volunteer Program — build your skills catalog and define the requirements and waivers your events will reference.
- Recruiting Volunteers — add people directly, embed a signup form on your website, share invite links, or invite specific people by email.
- Running Volunteer Events — the full event lifecycle from planning through close-out, including check-in, day-of coordination, and recording hours.
- Working with Corporate and Group Volunteers — onboard companies and groups whose organizers manage their own roster.
- Managing Volunteer Records — profiles, skill verifications, hours review, requirement completions, and waiver approvals.
- Reporting and Recognition — coordinator dashboards, hours and engagement reports, and ways to recognize volunteers.
- For Volunteers — what your volunteers themselves can do in Ayuna.
Related modules
- Projects — volunteer events are tied to construction projects. The Projects module is where projects are created and managed; the volunteer guide refers to projects as a reference. See the Projects guide for project setup.
- Communications — event notifications, registration confirmations, and waiver reminders all flow through the Communications module's templates.
- Homeowners — sweat equity hours can be recorded against an event close-out and roll up to the partner family's homeowner record.