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A volunteer log template for tracking volunteer contributions, taken from the WVCN Volunteer Tracking Primer.Â
This guide to volunteer tracking presents insights, recommendations, and best practices to inform WVCN's (formerly TFA’s) approach as it prepares to track the contributions of volunteers across multiple programs and locations throughout the state. This report introduces the topic of volunteer tracking and how nonprofits use tracking data to improve grant eligibility, demonstrate impacts to volunteers and stakeholders, provide in-kind match, and a range of other applications. Each program is briefly outlined and coupled with recommended metrics. The following section discusses insights shared from other West Virginia nonprofits, who were surveyed and interviewed through this project. After a more in-depth look at potential metrics and their uses, the report concludes with general tracking best practices. This guide uses a combination of literature reviews and surveys and discussions with West Virginia–based nonprofits to determine best practices in starting a volunteer tracking program. While it is tailored to fit WVCN programs, the guide is designed to be general enough to apply to other organizations new to establishing a tracking system with special attention to the unique challenges facing rural organizations.