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Understanding Volunteer Tracking

  • March 4, 2026
  • 4 replies
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Liz Ragland
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Feature Overview: Volunteer Tracking

Volunteer Tracking in Network for Good helps your organization manage, track, and engage volunteers (including virtual volunteers) using online tools to streamline your volunteer programs.

 

Key Capabilities

 

Track Volunteer Contributions Seamlessly

  • designate contacts as volunteers
  • log hours manually for a single date or across a date range, with notes
  • view full history directly in contact profiles

Allow Volunteers to Log Hours Themselves

  • share a public self-reporting form (with QR code support)
  • auto-match to existing contacts or create new ones
  • log hours for a single date or across a date range directly from the public form
  • get notified when volunteers submit hours

Get a Complete Picture of Engagement

  • view volunteer activity side-by-side with donation data
  • filter contacts by volunteer status, activity level (Active, Lapsed, No activity), and specific opportunity
  • add badges to recognize volunteer support

Organize Opportunities & Reach Out

  • create and manage volunteer opportunities, including open-ended programs with no fixed date or time
  • report on volunteer activity by opportunity
  • send emails or texts to specific volunteer segments

Gain Access to Insights & Impact at Your Fingertips

With built-in dashboards and filtering tools, you will be able to:

  • quantify the financial value of volunteer time
  • spot and re-engage lapsed volunteers
  • celebrate top contributors
  • discover overlap between donors and volunteers

Feature Availability

If you only use Fundraising Pages (and not Donor Management), this feature will not be available to you at this time.

 

Coming Soon!

We are rolling this out in three phases:

 

Milestone 1: Core Volunteer Tools (LIVE)

Start tracking and viewing volunteer data, create opportunities, and communicate with segments.

Milestone 2: Self-Reporting & Insights (LIVE)

Gain access to dashboards, self-logging forms, date-range hour logging, and contact filters by volunteer status, activity level, and specific opportunity.

Milestone 3: Automation & Smart Tools (TBA)

Automatically detect lapsed volunteers, queue outreach, and manage engagement settings with ease.

Note: If you only use Fundraising Pages (and not Donor Management), this feature will not be available to you at this time.

 

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4 replies

Jenny Floria
  • First Timer
  • July 13, 2026

Hi! These are some great enhancements to the volunteer module. I am looking for specific support in how to help volunteers log their own hours. Is there a training somewhere on that? Thank you! 

And...I’m an idiot and just found the additional training needed! We are excited to implement this with our volunteers! Woot woot! 


rachel moody
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  • Community Manager
  • July 14, 2026

Hey Jenny! Here’s the link to the volunteer training: https://academy.bonterratech.com/managing-volunteers-in-network-for-good

All other trainings are found on Bonterra Central: https://academy.bonterratech.com/

I’m sure I’ll see you in a live training soon!! 😀


Theresa Hays
  • First Timer
  • July 17, 2026

I am looking to track the opportunities.  Example - each month I calculate how many volunteers covered specific volunteer shifts, and how many hours that totals.  Is there a way to track the data by opportunity including the individual volunteer, #hours/date volunteered and notes recorded?


Charles Case
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  • Community Manager
  • July 20, 2026

Hi ​@Theresa Hays ! You can run a Filter in the Contacts tab to pull which contacts volunteered to a specific opportunity.

 

You could also go to an Opportunity in the Volunteers area and see who has reported hours and how many. This view doesn’t show any notes tied to the hours reporting though, so you’d have to click Actions > Edit to view if there was a note.

Unfortunately, there isn’t currently a way to pull all of these at once cleanly. This would be a great recommendation for our Ideas portal! You can find that by going to Submit Feedback under the ? bubble in the bottom-right corner.