The Blackbaud Volunteer Network Fundraising Solution is a Blackbaud Best Practice module that is designed specifically for college and university annual giving and reunion giving programs. This tool helps your staff manage volunteer fundraisers more efficiently, while making it easy for those volunteers to complete their solicitations.
The module in the Blackbaud Platform is a simple one-stop dashboard that lets managers create volunteer assignments, monitor Volunteer Network Fundraising activities, and view campaign results. The tools make it easy to track volunteer activity and exchange information.
Blackbaud Volunteer Network Fundraising is composed of three components:
When enabled, this module provides your institution with a new layer of the Platform called Volunteer Network Fundraising as well as access to the Blackbaud Volunteer Network Fundraising Web Portal for your volunteers.
The Management Dashboard is integrated within your Platform subscription. Users of the Platform will have access to a new layer titled Volunteer Network Fundraising. Within this layer, users will be able to create campaigns, assign Managers, add Volunteers and assign them constituents, and track your Volunteers' progress.
Managing Campaigns
Campaigns are available via the blue Campaign Menu tab along the left side of the page. From here, you can choose from a previously created campaign or choose to Add Campaign where you will walk through the campaign creation wizard.
The roles for each campaign are broken into two levels, each with differing access to the module. The Manager is a Platform user on your staff who manages a set of volunteers and will utilize the tools available in the Volunteer Network Fundraising layer of the Platform. The Volunteer will utilize the Web Portal and Mobile App to manage their assignments. Their progress and results are reported to the Manager via the Platform.
Learn more about working with campaigns in the module here.