HandsOn Connect: Your solution for volunteer engagement

Great choice for us, and we're not even a HandsOn Affiliate!

Recommend this product to anyone managing volunteer teams or individuals. It can do EVERYTHING you need.... sign up for jobs online, automatic emails to confirm/remind volunteers, follow up surveys for vol experiences, allow for full sign up or tell staff you want to volunteer and they will get back to you, tons of additional automations, form creators, blends with your existing web site, great layout and graphics, strong reporting & dashboards, etc etc etc. And support! Cases are usually answered in a day or less, and Zoom office hours every week day. The people behind HandsOn Connect are amazing ohana - you'll be proud to use their product.

Great for Varied Uses

I primarily use HandsOn Connect to manage our VITA/Free Tax Prep program at United Way Bay Area. We work in partnership with a ton of organizations and I love the flexibility and various ways to we can post opportunities and share the management with our partners. I find the system easy to share and train new staff and I love how it syncs with the rest of our Salesforce data - especially with our development/fundraising data. Highly recommend!

Fantastic tool for Volunteer Management. Amazing partners.

What an amazing team and product! We love partnering with the HandsOn Connect team because they genuinely care about the success and mission of their clients (and those that we refer to them). It doesn't matter if the client is a 2-3 person organization or an international conglomerate with a variety of complex use cases, the HandsOn Connect team will have an effective and affordable solution to meet their volunteer management needs. Highly recommend reaching out to them so you can be wowed by what HandsOn Connect can do.

Robust product accessible to all levels of technical expertise and experience

Boston Cares has been using HandsOn Connect for 5 years. This platform has just the right amount of pre-existing structure to meet the universal needs of volunteer management paired with the ability to customize locally to meet organization and community specific needs of users. Reporting and dashboard functions are robust, allowing users to build reports that slice and dice and summarize data concisely (and drill down to details) in a variety of styles. The HandsOn Connect team provides excellent customer service with a great combination of technical Salesforce expertise and nonprofit and volunteer management experience. Technical assistance in the form of brief digestible live and recorded webinars, an online help request board, and daily learning lab “office hours” make leveraging help and continuous skill building accessible whatever your schedule, availability (or time zone) may be. Learning opportunities are accessible to people with limited Salesforce experience and expertise while providing seasoned users the opportunity to continuously learn new skills and strategies.

Robust Volunteer Management System

HandsOn Greater Phoenix has been using HandsOn Connect since it's inception. We are very happy with the HOC team in how they have listened to their customers with the focus of their continued system updates. With an episodic volunteer model, this system is perfect for the needs of our volunteers. The front end is easy to navigate and using the CMS has been user friendly for our staff. The HOC support site is full of thorough trainings for new staff members, daily open labs for quick questions, and a very responsive support ticketing system. With the impressive amount of information the system can capture, the reporting functionality continues to make life easier for us. If you're an organization who works with volunteers, this system is for you! We are looking forward to HOC 3.0 and all the amazing features that will come with it.

THE Solution for Volunteer Management

Hands On Greater Portland has been using HandsOn Connect for over 5 years, and the amount of work that has gone into making it the comprehensive solution for volunteer management is remarkable. We post thousands of volunteer opportunities a year with hundreds of area nonprofits and have researched all of the options out there. Nothing comes close to providing the depth of resources available to help your organization and community effectively recruit volunteers. The robust suite of CMS, reporting, calendaring, registration, attendance, and team functionality allows us to help our metro area consistently rank in the top 10 for volunteerism nationwide. The team behind HandsOn Connect is always open to feedback, and implements enhancements based on user input. These regular updates continue to improve the already impressive feature set, while extensive documentation serves as a ready reminder of how impressive a resource it is.

Works nicely with NPO Starter Pack

I've worked with HandsOn Connect for several years. As a volunteer center where we strive to connect people to volunteer opportunities with the least amount of confusion. HOC has allowed us to do just that; a simple front-end user friendly look and a robust back-end that plugs nicely into our donor mgmt NPO Starter Pack from Salesforce.com. An all-in-one mgmt database for our small but mighty NPO. A Win Win!

Powerful Volunteer Management - Still going strong!

The HandsOn Connect app showcases the best of what Salesforce can do for volunteer management. Easy to understand interfaces for the admins and support staff alike, HandsOn Connect is simple to launch and can grow to meet your organization’s and volunteer’s needs. It provides a robust set of managed features, reporting tools, and a highly customizable web interface for every audience. The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation has been using HandsOn Connect for 5 years now and this app has a proven track record of supporting over 60 literacy and community partners who mobilize thousands of volunteers throughout the fourth largest city in the nation, Houston, Texas.

Hands on Connect has helped me to better understand our volunteer base and impact

We are a national non profit and have staff across the country utilizing Hands on Connect to track and report volunteer hours. As the National Director of Volunteer Services it has allowed me to better understand our volunteer base and see where we our strengths and areas of improvement are. It has also helped me see where reporting is missing---I might know about a group that has volunteered at a location and then not see it in the system so I can follow up with that staff member to make sure it gets reported. It has also helped ensure that we have applications and waivers for all our volunteers. We used to be a paperfull volunteer program and now we are essentially paperless! While there is a learning curve with using Salesforce for staff that are unfamiliar, once staff put in the time to learn it, it can be very quick and easy to use. I also like that I have a public facing site (volunteer portal) that I can easily update with photos, events that are relevant at the time, etc. Last but not least, the Hands on Connect has been a lot of resources into updating the product and they listen to their customers. I love the labs they offer and the help desk ---they are very responsive, friendly and easy to work with--which was very helpful when I was a Salesforce novice. Kassi Oliver, National Director of Volunteer Services, Hostelling International USA

HOC an excellent tool for volunteer agencies!

I'm not sure how we would get things done in my organization without HOC. Each event we host (and we host hundreds of events) is logged into the system, helping us to track macro and micro trends regarding volunteers through reports and dashboards. Volunteer management is a breeze because we have a record of everyone's engagement at the click of a button. The client-facing portion of the website is also excellent as it has the opportunity calendar function, allowing volunteers to access a user-friendly, holistic view of our volunteer opportunity range. Checking in with a rep about switching over to HOC should definitely be on your to-do list!