One out of four Americans volunteer in some way

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 62.8 million people volunteered their time in some way from September 2013 to September 2014. The rate compared to 2013 was “little changed,” according to the report, and decreased 0.1 percentage points to an overall volunteer rate of 25.3%.

Have you volunteered at least once this year?

Time for the Holiday Season

This holiday season remember ... “No one has ever become poor by giving.” - Anne Frank

Stay safe, enjoy the holidays, and look for more HelpTime in 2017.

Adding Administrators to your Event

After you create an event you may want to add others to coordinate or administer the event.  No Problem ...

Just go to the volunteers tab and select the "Administrator" checkbox next to the name of the person you want to make an administrator.  If the person is not yet listed, select the "Add Individual Volunteeer" button to add them to the list, then check the box.

Thanks and happy Volunteering!

Happy New Year From HelpTime

As 2012 comes to a close, we here at HelpTime would like to say thank you for allowing us to be part of your volunteer activities.  HelpTime has supported thousands of volunteers making it easy to share needs and sign up with our custom event sign up sheets.

Tell us what you think - our goal for 2013 is to add features that will be the most helpful to you and your volunteers.  Below are some of the suggestions we have received through out 2012 (they are on no particular order).  Which ones do you think are most important?

1. Send an email alert to event administrator when someone withdraws from an event task (one email per day that shows every volunteer withdrawal)
2. Add a discussion feature for each event (allows all volunteers to discuss event details both before and after the event)
3. Change when reminder emails are sent out (currently one day before, allow the time to be set by each event)
4. Create an iPhone and Android Phone App
5. Modify the event finder to enable searching for events in a geographic area or events for a specific organization
6. Ability for volunteers to enter comments on the task that they have volunteered for
7. Allow creation of recurring volunteering activities (not just for a single event)
8. Add features to allow volunteers to enter their interests and receive information from volunteer based organizations that match their interests.
9. Create a public user discussion forum for all users to share volunteer ideas and lessons.
10. Other - If there is something else just let us know
    

We will work on implementing those features that we get the greatest response for, so please, reply and let us know that features you would like to see added.

Thank you, Happy Volunteering and have a Happy New Year.

Help a Fellow Human Being Today

Help a Fellow Human Being Today

Love. Simply finding ways to express your love to others, whether it be your partner, child, other family member, friend, co-worker, or a complete stranger … just express your love. A hug, a kind word, spending time, showing little kindnesses, being friendly … it all matters more than you know.

Email Reminders for Volunteer Tasks

Today HelpTime has implemented new functionality regarding email reminders for volunteer tasks.

By default, users will receive email notifications for tasks they are assigned to. A volunteer can maintain their default setting by checking or unchecking the email reminder notification on any event

HelpTime Highlights - March 2012

HelpTime Highlights – March 2012 Free Online Event Management Site Makes Coordinating Volunteers Easy!
News Update: As the number of volunteers continues to grow, HelpTime has been busy working on several exciting enhancements. We are nearing 1,500 members that support their causes with the aid of the free HelpTime tool. Over 250 events across the US and in the UK are finding it easier to manage their volunteer activities. Our major recent enhancement was an update to the steps used in creating an event. Now when you create an event, just follow the workflow with “Back” and “Next” buttons to populate a few simple screens and you have created your volunteer signup form. It’s that easy, and it is still as easy as click to signup for your volunteers! HelpTips … A New way of viewing and sharing your event sign up page A new addition to HelpTime is the ability to view your sign up page from any event maintenance screen.. At any time you can select view to see your current signup page .  HelpTime can send signup requests for you from the communicate tab, but if you decide to share the your signup page on your own, just press the scissor to copy the link to your signup page. You can paste it in you own email, website or social network. HelpTime.com Recent enhancements: Creating an event now follows a simple workflow where you use the “NEXT” and “BACK” button to walk through a few screens that create and share your event sign up form. The sign on page and registration page have been placed together making it easier for new members to register. Event Administrators can now assign volunteers to tasks directly from the event signup page. This is done with the “Switch to Admin View” button – this is visible only to the event administrators. The events shown on the event finder screen are now sorted with the most recent to end event at the top of the list When creating or updating an event, you can view the signup form from any tab with the “view” selection at the top right event tab. – You can also use the scissor to copy a link to the sign up page and share it on your own.	Share HelpTime with others! Anyone can create a free event, just click here to get started HelpTime is proud to have partnered with to provide unique and personalized items for your event. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and keep up with the latest HelpTime updates
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