Volunteers for Salesforce (v4s) is an integrated application included in the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP)

This application allows you to link:

  • Volunteers (also known in Salesforce v4s as “Contacts“)
  • Volunteer Roles (known in Salesforce v4s as “Jobs“)
  • Volunteer Shifts and
  • Volunteer Hours.
  • Within Projects (known in Salesforce v4s as “Campaigns” – similar to a “marketing campaign” where you’d be prospecting for Donors.  In this case, we are prospecting for/tracking Volunteers.

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Here’s the link to to the overview: Manage Volunteers for Nonprofits

As with any database, the key is to understand the structure.  Take a look at this PAGE – the 2nd picture is a link to a 1 minute video that provides a good introduction to Volunteers for Salesforce – V4S.

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Initial Step

Navigating from the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack welcome page to the Volunteers for Salesforce page.

1:29 (1 min, 29 second) youtube video showing how to navigate within Salesforce’s Nonprofit Success Pack

1.

Creating a Volunteer Campaign

(1:56 min youtube video) necessary because Volunteer Jobs (“roles”) must be associated with a Campaign.

2

Creating a Volunteer Job

(3:07 min youtube video) shows how to build a new Job and clone an existing Job.

3

Creating Volunteer Job Shifts

(4:42 min youtube video) 2 options for navigating to a Volunteer Job and creating and cloning Job Shifts.

4

Assigning Volunteers to Shifts

(4:51 min youtube video)  - using Shift Calendar and Mass Edit Volunteer Hours