Bici Centro (<a href="http://bicicentro.org">bicicentro.org</a>) is using Wild Apricot (<a href="http://wildapricot.com">wildapricot.com</a>).  >From looking at the specs, it seems Volgistics will excel at volunteer management but lacks WA&#39;s member management features.  <br>
<br>Here is our current tech stew:<br><br>* Wild Apricot website (Bici Centro)<br>* freehub (<a href="http://freehub.bikekitchen.org">freehub.bikekitchen.org</a>) and Volunteer Spot (<a href="http://volunteerspot.com">volunteerspot.com</a>) for additional volunteer management<br>

* Quickbooks POS for sales tracking<br>* Quickbooks for bookkeeping<br>* Constant Contact for email newsletter (because the WA email blasts aren&#39;t as feature-rich)<br> <br>In addition, there is little clear distinction between us and our parent advocacy nonprofit (<a href="http://sbbike.org">sbbike.org</a>).  We share funds, events, educational programming, members, and volunteers.  But &quot;they&quot; maintain a separate website, mailing list, and newsletter, all with another set of tech tools, some at additional cost.<br>
<br>I&#39;d love to have one system with one database that does everything, am trying to move in that direction over time.<br><br>Dave Bourgeois<br>Treasurer<br>Bici Centro/Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, R Points <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:poster@richpoints.com">poster@richpoints.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



  
  

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For us I think Volgistics is going to be a great tool to manage
volunteers, Earn-A-Bikers, Community service, high level volunteers,
memberships, special events and more.  There&#39;s a bit of a learning
curve but I can see it&#39;s going to bring us up the the next level of
sophistication.<br>
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Ride On!<br>
Rich<br>
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Froilan Eliseo Landeros wrote:
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  <div>my social service agency (not bike related) uses it.  it&#39;s very
sophisticated and thorough and if you&#39;re just looking to keep track of
volunteers, you might be better off using something else.  i think you
can get a free trial and check out the services for a while w/ no
commitment.  i know the recyclery Chicago uses something that a a local
volunteer created.  contact folsk there to see fi they can give you
that program.  very basic volutneer tracking/orientation.</div>
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  <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Rich Points
  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rich@communitycycles.org" target="_blank">rich@communitycycles.org</a>&gt;</span>
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  <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Any shops out there using Volgistics for volunteer
management?<br>
    <a href="http://www.volgistics.com/0-0.htm" target="_blank">http://www.volgistics.com/0-0.htm</a><br>
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We could use some help setting it up.<br>
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Ride On!<br>
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-- <br>
Rich Points<br>
Community Cycles Executive Director<br>
    <a href="http://communitycycles.org/" target="_blank">http://CommunityCycles.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:Rich@CommunityCycles.org" target="_blank">Rich@CommunityCycles.org</a><br>
720-565-6019 (W)<br>
303-589-0597 (C)<br>
Donate your old car to Community Cycles<br>
    <a href="http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html" target="_blank">http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html</a><br>
Volunteer orientations held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.<br>
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