There may be some situations, like Covid-19, that may cause your organization to temporarily suspend volunteer involvement. The following are a list of things you will want to consider when you are ready to resume after a temporary shutdown.
Restart Activities
Add scheduled shifts to existing activities
Add one or more shifts to a single activity
Add the same shift times to multiple activities
Re-activate activities that were changed to ‘Inactive’ at the start of your shutdown period. All volunteer assignments, that were scheduled before the activity status change, will remain on the activity.
Change status for one activity
Change status for multiple activities at once
Let People Know What is Happening
Update the Volunteer News to share information with volunteers on their volunteer profile pages
Send an email to volunteers
Add a file to the Document Library to share information volunteers may need to be aware of and/or download
Update the Administrator News to share information with administrators on their admin profile pages
Send an email to administrators
Communicate with Potential Volunteers
Update the Public Page Volunteer Message to share information with potential volunteers visiting your Better Impact public recruitment page.
Enable Application Forms
If your application form(s) have been disabled for a period of time, you will want to enable them once you are ready to accept new volunteer applicants and potentially update the message emailed to volunteers upon the completion of the application.
Update New Volunteer Email Message