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Volunteer Hawaii/Volunteer Solution
Volunteer Hawaii's Volunteer Center connects volunteers and agency opportunities using an application called Volunteer Solutions. Below you will find links that will take you to the most frequently needed instructions. However, you can access the entire user manual through the button to the left.
Volunteer Introduction
As a volunteer, you will use Voluteer Hawaii to find and respond to volunteer opportunities that have been created and posted online by Agencies. You can also use Volunteer Hawaii to read about volunteer events and news in your community.
You may choose to register with Volunteer Hawaii; that is, create a volunteer account. Registering provides you with access to more robust tools for searching for opportunities, and enables you to track your volunteer hours and write volunteer reflections.
If enabled by an Administrator, you can use additional features of Volunteer Hawaii to manage additional forms of giving you can provide to supplement your volunteer work. Specifically, you can give some of your time by seeking out and serving on boards of nonprofits, donate money to your Volunteer Center, and donate goods and services to local Agencies.
Agency Introduction
As an Agency, you will use Volunteer Hawaii to recruit individuals and groups to volunteer at your organization. You can create and post descriptions of openings for volunteers to help with date-specific and ongoing tasks (opportunities), both for your organization’s specific needs as well as for community events organized by Administrators. You can then follow up on and track responses from prospective volunteers (called referrals). If an Administrator has enabled time-tracking, you can also record volunteer hours completed by individual volunteers matched to your opportunities, and/or approve volunteer hours claimed by volunteers themselves.
Two other features Administrators can enable allow you to request resources from the community: Board Connections and Product Connections, which (respectively) help you find people to serve on your board and in-kind gifts to meet your organization's material needs.
In order to use Volunteer Hawaii, you will need to register. Registration is free, although the Site Administrator will need to review and approve your registration before you can begin using your Agency account. Administrators will also review any opportunities you create before they are posted in Volunteer Hawaii for viewing by volunteers.