Hi Justin,
Good morning to you,
I can definitely see how this would benefit your organization and I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us in our forum. I'd like to reach out to discuss your options - please be on the look out for an email from me.
Thank you Justin
I second the motion! My org runs a major event once a year and we usually release a limited edition volunteer shirt specifically for that event (which garners "cool status" for the volunteers, as they get to collect them all by coming back year after year ;)
I need to be able to ask them whether they want one, their size, and whether they want a snack. We used a Google form last year both as the registration and to collect this info - which then involved a lot of copy-and-pasting email addresses later when we were tracking their shift assignments and trying to communicate with them. My volunteers are so impressed with the new system, I kinda hate to push them back to the old way of collecting this info...
The event is in March 2023... will this feature be out in time for me to use it? Or should I plan on working around a Google form again?
Hi Abigail,
Thank you for reaching out about this and sharing the details about your orgs major event!
Based on the information provided, I'd highly suggest using the Initiatives feature where opportunities can be grouped together for an event and one of the great additions of Initiatives is being able to add custom questions to those specific opportunities. I see Echo already has two Initiatives created and I recommend following this guide here on how to set up custom questions in Initiatives so that engaging volunteers with asks like t-shirt size and snacks will appear when volunteers are responding to an opportunity of said event!
Here's some additional resources:
I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any questions about this or if I perhaps missed the mark here!
All the best,
Annette
Tammi Vest
It would be beneficial to have the ability to customize both the automated response to a need as well as have the ability to add customized questions to a need. Unfortunately, the workaround using Initiatives doesn't work for us as we are using it for our campus designation.
We are a church and working with multiple ministries on 4 campuses, in addition, each campus works with ministries and organizations out in the community as well. Having the ability to do the above would be a fantastic benefit for us.
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