Logging and approving volunteer hours

Hours are how you measure volunteer impact for grants and board reports.

Logging hours

Open the Hours tab of the Volunteers page and click Log Volunteer Hours (also available from the Dashboard tab's Quick Actions). Each entry records the Volunteer, the Hours, the Date, and an optional Description of what they did.

The approval queue

Every logged entry starts as pending. Pending hours appear at the top of the Hours tab, where staff can Approve or Reject each one. Only approved hours count toward a volunteer's totals. The Dashboard tab surfaces a Pending Approvals count and links straight to the queue.

Totals

Each volunteer accumulates a running total of approved hours, and the Dashboard's Top Volunteers leaderboard ranks your most active volunteers by hours logged.