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All-in-One Platform

Volunteer Management Software
Without the Coordination Chaos

Stop juggling spreadsheets, group texts, and last-minute scheduling crises. Kindly gives you volunteer management tools that actually work - scheduling, communication, hour tracking, and more in one platform.

Why Kindly

One Platform Instead of Five

Most nonprofits use separate tools for volunteers, donors, events, and communications. Kindly brings everything together.

Feature Comparison

SignUpGenius

Sign-ups
Hour reports (paid)
Donor management
Email campaigns

VolunteerHub

Scheduling
Hour tracking
Donor (via integrations)
Task management

Better Impact

Scheduling
Hour tracking
Donor management
Task management
Complete Platform

Kindly

Scheduling
Hour tracking
Donor management
Communications

Stop paying for multiple tools. Kindly includes volunteer management, donor tracking, events, communications, and task management in one platform.

You know the drill - SignUpGenius for volunteer shifts, Mailchimp for emails, a spreadsheet for hour tracking, another tool for donors. Managing volunteers shouldn't mean managing five different logins.

The Coordination Tax

Using Multiple Tools Costs You Time and Money

When your volunteer coordinator uses SignUpGenius for scheduling, your development director uses Bloomerang for donors, and your program manager uses Asana for tasks, nobody sees the full picture.

That volunteer who signed up for your food drive? They might also be a monthly donor, but you wouldn't know it because the systems don't talk to each other.

Separate Tool Chaos

  • Five different logins to remember
  • Data scattered across multiple platforms
  • Manual data entry and duplicate records
  • Paying subscription fees to multiple vendors
  • No single source of truth for your community

Kindly's Unified Approach

  • One platform for everything
  • Complete view of every person in your community
  • Automatic syncing across all features
  • Single subscription instead of multiple bills
  • See when volunteers are also donors or event attendees
The Problem

Why Nonprofits Struggle with Volunteer Coordination

You're two weeks from your community cleanup when three volunteers text to say they can't make it. You scramble to fill spots, texting back and forth, checking who's available, updating your spreadsheet. By the time you're done, you've lost an hour you didn't have.

This is the reality for most volunteer coordinators. Scattered contact information, last-minute cancellations, volunteers who sign up but don't show, hours tracked in spreadsheets, and communication spread across email, texts, and phone calls. It's exhausting, time-consuming, and pulls you away from mission work.

How Kindly Helps

Volunteer Coordination Challenges We Solve

Scheduling Conflicts & No-Shows

Automated reminders reduce no-shows. Volunteers can self-schedule and manage their own availability, so you're not chasing people down.

Scattered Communication

Stop digging through texts, emails, and voicemails. Send shift reminders, updates, and thank-yous from one platform with full message history.

Manual Hour Tracking

Track volunteer hours automatically with check-in/check-out features. View comprehensive reports instead of managing spreadsheets.

Limited Volunteer Information

Complete volunteer profiles with skills, interests, availability, and history. Know who to call when you need someone with specific expertise.

Last-Minute Cancellations

Volunteers can easily cancel through their portal, and you're notified immediately. See open shifts at a glance and quickly reach out to fill spots.

Grant Reporting Stress

View volunteer hours by date range, project, or individual. All the data funders want, organized and ready to reference.

Features

Complete Volunteer Management Features

Everything you need to recruit, schedule, communicate with, and recognize volunteers - plus donor management, events, and more.

Shift Scheduling

Create shifts, set capacity, and let volunteers self-schedule. Automated reminders reduce no-shows.

Volunteer Profiles

Complete profiles with skills, interests, availability, emergency contacts, and full volunteer history.

Hour Tracking

Automatic hour logging with check-in/check-out. View detailed reports by date range, volunteer, or project.

Automated Communications

Send shift confirmations, reminders, updates, and thank-you messages. Track who opened what.

Task Assignment

Assign tasks to volunteer teams with deadlines and status tracking. Keep everyone on the same page.

Smart Reminders

Automatic reminders before shifts and notifications when volunteers sign up or cancel. Keep everyone informed.

Event Integration

Coordinate volunteers for fundraising events, community programs, and activities all in one system.

Reporting & Analytics

Track volunteer engagement, hours by project, and retention rates. See who your top volunteers are at a glance.

Unified Platform

See when volunteers are also donors, event attendees, or task owners. Everything connects automatically.

Kindly in Action

The Saturday Food Distribution

Your food pantry runs distributions every Saturday morning. You need 15 volunteers across setup, registration, packing, and cleanup shifts. In Kindly, you create the shifts once, and volunteers sign up for their preferred roles.

Wednesday evening, three volunteers get automated reminders. One realizes they can't make it and cancels through their volunteer portal. You're notified right away and can quickly see who's available to fill the spot.

Saturday goes smoothly. Volunteers check in with a QR code, their hours are tracked automatically. After the event, everyone gets a thank-you email. When you need volunteers for next month's fundraiser, you already know who showed up reliably and who has the skills you need.

The best part? You notice that three of your most dedicated volunteers are also monthly donors. Time to make sure they're invited to your appreciation dinner.

Easy Migration

Import Your Existing Volunteer Data

Moving to Kindly is straightforward. Export your volunteer data from your current platform and import it using our smart CSV importer.

CSV Import
Excel Spreadsheets
Smart Field Mapping
Bulk Contact Import
FAQ

Volunteer Management Software FAQ

SignUpGenius is great for sign-ups and basic scheduling, with hour reporting available on paid plans. Kindly includes volunteer management as part of a complete nonprofit platform - you get scheduling, hour tracking, donor management, email campaigns, event coordination, and task management all in one system. Instead of juggling SignUpGenius, a donor CRM, and an email tool, everything connects automatically.
Yes. Kindly automatically tracks volunteer hours with check-in/check-out functionality. View reports by date range, project, or volunteer. All your hour data is organized and accessible when you need it for grant applications.
VolunteerHub and Better Impact are strong dedicated volunteer management platforms. VolunteerHub offers integrations with donor tools like Blackbaud and Salesforce, while Better Impact focuses purely on volunteer coordination. Kindly includes volunteer management alongside built-in donor tracking, email campaigns, events, and task management - no integrations or additional subscriptions required.
Absolutely. Volunteers can view open shifts, sign up for roles that match their skills and availability, receive automated confirmations and reminders, and manage their own schedule. This dramatically reduces administrative work for coordinators.
When someone cancels a shift, you're notified immediately and can see open spots at a glance. Use the built-in communication tools to quickly reach out to available volunteers and fill the gap.
Yes. Tag volunteers with skills, interests, availability patterns, or any custom categories. When you need someone with specific expertise - like bilingual volunteers or people with event setup experience - you can quickly find and contact the right people.
Automated email reminders are sent before shifts, volunteers receive confirmations when they sign up, and the system makes it easy for people to cancel if they can't make it. This combination significantly reduces no-shows and last-minute surprises.

Stop Juggling Tools. Start Managing Volunteers Simply.

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