Knowing Your Volunteers with the RSVP Comment Feature

Outcomes:

1. Learn about the RSVP Comment Feature
2. Learn how to use the feature as a community administrator

Introduction

Managing a community can be a stressful at times, especially when dealing with RSVP's from volunteers. In reality, you do not know all the people who are counting in to your opportunity. Getting a little more information about them will give you a sense of who they are and whether they are the right people for your opportunity.

Note: RSVP Comment Feature can only be activated by the platform administrator. If this feature is not yet active on your platform, contact your platform administrator.

Using the RSVP Comment Feature as a Community Administrator

The RSVP Comment Feature helps the community administrator not only see who is "Counting in" to the opportunity, but also if the volunteers are coming alone or as a team.

When a volunteer applies to an opportunity, the administrator receives this email:

If you are satisfied with the volunteer's comment, you can then accept him in the "Manage Volunteers" page of the opportunity. To learn more about managing volunteers, click here.

For more information:

• How to activate the RSVP Comment Feature?
• How to manage participants?