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On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:01 PM, charles eldermire wrote:
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> Hello-
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> I'm looking for input on the ideal system for managing information
> about volunteers, as well as scheduling and tracking volunteer
> hours. My ideal system would require me to duplicate data entry as
> little as possible!
>
> For example, let's say I have an event on Sunday that is going to
> last for 4 hours and require 2 volunteers to work the entire event.
> Ideally, I would have a database that has all of the volunteers in
> it, all of the events in it, and would automatically tally a given
> volunteer's hours once they were added to an event. Furthermore, it
> would be great if this database could publish to an online calendar
> where the events are listed and described for the public to see, and
> potentially even a second calendar (or perhaps a private calendar)
> for volunteers to examine upcoming opportunities to volunteer and
> what skills will be needed. At the end of the year I want to be
> able to print reports that show total volunteer hours, total/
> category of activity, etc.
>
> Is there any solution out there that works out-of-the-box? Any
> beautiful FileMaker templates, or integrated Google Apps approach
> that I don't know about? I'm pretty much sick of cobbling together
> spreadsheets, cutting and pasting data into multiple spots so that
> it's represented on the web & elsewhere...
>
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
>
> charles.
>
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> Charles Eldermire
> Public Education Outreach Associate
> Manager, Sapsucker Woods & Johnson Visitors' Center
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
> 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> (607) 254-1131
> (607) 254-2111 [fax]
> <http://www.birds.cornell.edu/>
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