{"id":1033,"date":"2017-03-10T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.com\/en\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T09:08:23","slug":"volunteer-coordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/volunteer-coordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the Challenge of Volunteer Coordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And why enterprise software is not the best answer<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/buddydo-volunteer-blog.jpg\" alt=\"buddydo volunteer blog\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" data-wp-pid=\"1072\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Volunteers are the most valuable resources for nonprofit communities and organizations. Faced with frequent volunteer changes and the need to remotely keep everyone informed, it is no surprise that organizing and coordinating volunteers is one of the most time-consuming and challenging aspects of running a nonprofit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We often see nonprofits trying to solve their volunteer collaboration needs with a hodge podge of enterprise team communication and productivity tools, only to find that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onboarding and managing every volunteer for multiple apps is too much work<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Requiring volunteers to learn how to use different apps is not practical<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With information and actions scattered across different apps, you quickly lose track of the status of information shared and of arrangements made<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These problems are expected, after all enterprise tools are designed for companies and employees, not for nonprofits and volunteers, which involve a unique set of working dynamics and needs.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BuddyDo is designed for nonprofits large and small. It simplifies volunteer organization and coordination for nonprofits with a convenient all-in-one app as well as web access from PC. With BuddyDo, running a nonprofit becomes quick and easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Organize volunteers with flexible groups<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Make community wide announcements or post information to individual groups<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Know who you have reached for every information posted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Work together with shared tasks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Plan group events<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Collect feedback and making group decisions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Securely share files and photos<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplify volunteer coordination with BuddyDo.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BuddyDo, your best NPO\/NGO partner. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And why enterprise software is not the best answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[56,58,59,57,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.buddydo.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}