InitLive Reviews

The best part of Bloomerang Volunteer is how much time I save creating shifts and answering calls about sign-ups. We are able to have a self-scheduled volunteer website. I have saved hours in my everyday tasks. This has allowed me to spend that valuable time growing our volunteer programming and focusing on donations.

It would be helpful if admins could edit volunteer profile information if it is incorrect.

With Bloomerang Volunteer, our liability waiver and confidentiality waiver are built into the volunteer registrations. Being able to have waivers and emergency contacts of 8,000+ volunteers easily searchable is a game-changer.

Being able to report our volunteer numbers quickly is helpful to grant writing and impact reports to our donors.

What I love most about Bloomerang Volunteer is how intuitive and easy it is for our volunteers, for our team, and for our folks who work on the back end. I have used other ones including free ones (that we have quickly outgrown) and even one that has been talked about as the best of the paid ones. Bloomerang is less than that paid one and it's unbelievably better. Plus, the support has been beyond good. Super responsive and solution oriented, we have had a tremendous experience. Our volunteers love it too. We get lots of compliments about how easy the process is. We love how Bloomerang has added to our organization!

You might think that the pricing is a negative but I have to be honest, it's totally worth it if you rely on volunteers for your organization. You can pay less but you absolutely get what you pay for. You can also pay more and have a product that isn't easy for your volunteers, your staff, and your admins. Plus, you get tremendous support! If you are used to using free volunteer plaforms, you will get sticker shock. Take into account all that you get and the tools that you will have to communicate with and manage your volunteers. Absolutely worth it.

Our biggest needs were to be able to manage multiple events each week, be able to report on the volunteers and their hours, and give our volunteers an easy to navigate experience with a login that will allow them to track and manage their contribution to the organization. Bloomerang solves all these issues for us and for our volunteers.

It's been most helpful in scheduling volunteers for a variety of shifts. We have boosted out volunteer pool simply by having a platform for volunteer to view all opportunities available and ease of sign-up. The communications tools are incredibly helpful in getting reminders and emails/texts out to volunteers.

We've been having some trouble with the app. I've noticed that the app doesn't allow for saved passwords and we have an older population of volunteers where tech doesn't come as naturally. So often people are complaining of having to update their password multiple times. Mostly this is user error, but if the app saved passwords or kept people logged in, that would help. Some of the email communication tools haven't be available, but I know are coming.

We are able to promote a wide variety of volunteer opportunities to our community in a way that is really visually appealing and easy to use. This has boosted out pool of volunteers as well as volunteer hours.

It's one place to keep things related to our volunteers including hours, personal information, background checks and more. It's nice to be able to go to one place vs the several folders I had before.

It can be slightly confusing in the wording when signing up to shifts. People that are new to it typically get confused on they have only signed up to an "Opportunity" and not a shift.

The platform allows me to keep all of my volunteer information in one place, make a schedule easily, add hours as needed, run reports for grant purposes and more. It's allowing me to streamline my volunteer managment much easier than I was able to before.