Bloomerang Volunteer offers three types of volunteer groups: account-based groups, number-based groups, and email-based groups. Volunteers can be a member of only one group at a time.
Account-Based Groups
Account-based groups include any number of volunteers that have Bloomerang accounts.
Account-based groups can include volunteers that have not claimed their accounts yet.
Account-based groups are publicly visible during the signup process.
Both administrators and volunteers can create account-based groups.
Number-Based Groups
Number-based groups are associated with a single group leader.
Number-based groups can contain a specific number of other unspecified volunteers, up to a maximum of 101.
The number of volunteers in the group must be set when the group is created, and cannot be changed later.
Members of the group are not required to have accounts in Bloomerang Volunteer. Both administrators and volunteers can create number-based groups.
Volunteers do not directly join number-based groups. Number-based groups are not visible during the opportunity signup process.
Number-based groups are used to reserve headcount for an event. For example: if someone knows that they can commit to bringing a certain number of volunteers to an event, but they do not know the names or email addresses of those volunteers, they can create a number-based group. This headcount information can be helpful when planning the event.
Email-Based Groups
Email-based groups are groups of volunteers that each have their own Bloomerang accounts, but share a single email address.
Each volunteer uses a slight variation of the underlying email address with the format
[email protected]. The identifier portion of the variant email address must be unique for each volunteer in the group.When someone sends an email to one of the volunteers using their unique email address variant, the message goes to the underlying email account.
For example:
The Doe family (Jane, John, Susan, and Robert) want to create Bloomerang Volunteer accounts, but they all want to share the email address
[email protected].Jane sets up her account first. She uses the email address
[email protected].The other members of the family set up their accounts. Each of them uses a variation of the basic email address:
The Doe family is now an email-based group with 4 members.
If someone sends an email to
[email protected], the email goes to[email protected].