What I like most about the product is the ease of use. It is very simple to review messages, tasks, or other items as they arise. It is also simple to connect back to the sponsors of the product with comments or questions.

The problem I've encountered is that it is tied to GDPR standards. That posed a bit of a problem for our organization, but we were able to make changes in our process to accommodate the issues encountered due to GDPR adherence.

Overall Get Connected is a wonderful product. My only wish is that all nonprofit organizations would set up an account for their volunteer and event needs.

It is very easy to use for both the user and the agency. I love that I can "assume the primary manager" and make changes for our partners, if needed. I love the email tool as a boost in communicating an event or need - when someone receives a personal email the response is always greater. Our specific program, Volunteer Connect, is integrated with our local university's South Serves. That is a valuable way for the students at South Alabama to give back to the community outside of their school needs.

My experience and use is rather basic, therefore I do not have any suggestions for improvements. It seems that getting our "inside" volunteers i.e. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] to log their hours is cumbersome. I would like a simpler way for them to do so, as they are very busy in their day to day work and volunteer jobs. As an agency we want everyone who gives their time to us to be recognized and for us to note how many hours they give. We just have trouble with convincing them to create an account and record their time for each individual event/meeting etc.

First, the platform is not at all geared towards raising money. I should have realized this because they do not heavily advertise this feature. However, the sales rep made it seem like it would be easy to add fundraising and convinced me it would work. Second, the platform is not quick and easy to get up and running. You have to complete HOURS of training that has to be scheduled weeks out in advance. This was also not revealed to me by the sales rep until after they got my money. So my attempt to get a platform up and running within a few days of the disaster turned into 6 weeks. Note, I completed all the training as soon as possible (I took the earliest class and did all the self-paced training) and this was still how long it took. Third, you need a full-time person to manage this platform. It is not something that will run seamlessly in the background. It is basically a database. So you need to have a dedicated person that is pretty tech savvy that is able to spend AT LEAST 20 hours a week managing your platform. Fourth, all the volunteer groups have to ALSO have a dedicated person that ALSO has to go through training! This was a huge turnoff to the civic groups that I pitched this platform to. Finally, after all of these issues, I contacted the company within 6 weeks and explained that this was not what I thought it would be. I asked for a refund. I was denied. They said they do not offer refunds. That meant I was out nearly $5,000 of my own money that I donated to the

Nothing. I liked what I saw in the demo. But what I actually got after the company had my money was very disappointing.

Amount of training required to use. Amount of time required to manage. Amount of admins required. Poor customer service.

Ease of use, better coordination of volunteers, increased marketing and awareness.

The software is easy to use, looks great online and offers rather robust back-end features for our partner agencies and as the site manager. It's also very user friendly for both agencies and volunteer team managers. We are very excited about the growth we've seen and the positive feedback we've received by our agencies and volunteer users.

There is nothing that we like least about the software! It's so useful to organizing volunteers and helping us streamline many processes. We still have the issue in our community that we have more volunteers than needs available or posted on the platform. While we have created a custom form on the site for a group of volunteers to request a volunteer need (specifically for teams of 5 or more people), we could use a few more features to help manage these company-based groups and to be able to streamline the process between the group's request, submission of project/needs from agencies specifically for a group, and actually matching the group to a need. We have also had more companies ask about collecting t-shirt sizes or other data from their employees upon sign-up, and I'm still working on a few work-around ideas for this. To address this process, we are currently utilizing a combination of the private volunteer need setting, user groups and initiatives. We may also start setting up custom pages on the site to organize a company's series of private volunteer needs into one centralized page that doesn't initially require a login by the user to view the need.

This software has really transformed our volunteer program. It makes all the information on our events in one visually appealing, organized place - which is easy to share with someone who wants to know what our organization does. It saves me a ton of time - less emailing volunteers back and forth for signing them up for events. I love the reports section and data exports.

Some of our less tech-savvy volunteers don't like having to sign up for each event when they come to multiple events a week, every week. I got around this by signing all our core volunteers up for every relevant event, and then whoever actually shows up is checked in using the check-in kiosk.

Our experience was unbelievable actually. This is the only company who when you have a challenge they send you a personalized video showing you the process on your own site.

Get Connected is the best volunteer management software we have found with many features and options to do just about anything you need to do.

Not really a con. but the cost is a little more than some, but that is offset by the stellar customer service.

The benefit of being a centralized location where volunteers can come to browse a catalog of available volunteer opportunities and organizations. It was extremely valuable during March of 2020 at the onset of COVID.

I appreciate how we can filter out and target specific volunteers based on interests, causes, etc. It allows for a strategic and target recruitment strategy. The E-blast function is the most used function aside from creating opportunities and organizations. Customer care is always on point with our multi-layered questions and are very responsive in a timely manner.

There are a few strange nuances, but once you learn what those are, you can overlook them.

When West Virginia University decided to upgrade our volunteer management software, there was a lot of time and research put into the process. We have many "moving parts" to our needs, including integration with university data, single-sign-on, special reporting, large day of service coordination, and academic service-learning. No only did Get Connected turn out to be the best fit after our initial examination of the options, but WVU is very happy with our choice--mostly because of how much we admire and appreciate the caring, dedicated, smart, and cooperative staff at Galaxy Digital! Anyone who does work in the community knows that customer service is KEY. Galaxy has figured this part of their business model out to the fullest. 24/7 support online coupled with quick and effective communications via phone/email really has been instrumental in successfully launching our system. WVU is a large client for Get Connected (40K+ users with 7,500 hours tracked in our first 6 weeks) and the company has just been wonderful to collaborate with in the process. Open to system enhancements every 8 weeks or so, Get Connected has ALREADY implemented WVU's suggestions for system improvements, and has been a great partner to discuss future development opportunities. The software is a great match for our needs, and more importantly will be able to grow with the needs of our students and community. All users, including our students, faculty, staff, and community partners have loved the change and especially appreciate the clean navigation in Get Connected as well as the mobile functionality. Whether you're a small organization or a large land-grant institution of higher education, Get Connected is worth exploring if you need volunteer management software. We're happy to be part of the Galaxy Digital family, and hope those folks know that they're now part of our Mountaineer Family!

I find the software easy to use from the administrator viewpoint and easy for the public, as well. The customer support is excellent! They have been very responsive, in a timely fashion, and always willing to help with whatever issue I might have.

It's easy to use and most of the public can use it relatively easily.

Would like more reporting functions (more detailed). Although I can get all the info on an excel spread sheet, since we've had this system since Aug. 2013 and there are 5,000+ users in the system, that's a lot of info to have to filter through to get what I need.

GC was straight forward with their presentation. They tried to answer all our questions as we had specific situations that they researched for us to be able to succeed.

I like the look of the portal. It is easy for users to find our events.

These are not cons, but items I wish we could have available. I have over 100 events and i wish i could print out all events on one spreadsheet with each events participants names.

The ability to check in and out easily through your mobile device and it is user friendly

The required waiver signature can be a little difficult for some

It has been great, from our original set up to things that we need they have been there for us

I love the fact that this software is easy to manage. I am also comfortable allowing others into the system.

There is really nothing I dont like about it

Get Connected has allowed us to streamline our volunteer program. We advertise volunteer events, log volunteer hours and advertise for volunteer positions via the website. It has made my life as a volunteer coordinator easier and I would definitely recommend it!

The website does tend to send our volunteers a great deal of automatic emails which some people find annoying.

The software is easy to use for the volunteer which is VERY important. There a lot of options for information from the agencies to be provided. We receive positive feedback from agencies as well. We used Volunteer Solutions before and even though it was cluncky, I find myself missing the customization features of it. It would be nice to have more options on reports. We have reports that we have to provide for our HON affiliate report and I have to create a reporting system outside of Get Connected to collect data that I need to report. It would be great to be able to choose what is the default of the site, for example to have the default view be list view instead of grid view. For large events that have many opportunities, the list view has more per page and grid view creates more pages to sort through for the volunteer. I would like to create standard volunteer questions (such as a t-shirt size question) that I could just choose instead of having to enter it each time an event is created. It is also laborious for the event manager to go back and post the hours after a large event, it would be helpful to have the option of mass approval of hours for an event instead of individually.

I was hoping that this program would allow us to do more. More so related to the advanced events from an admin standpoint. We need to be able to add opportunities without having an agency registered. Some of our Day of Caring agencies aren't organizations who need volunteers year-round and thus an entire profile is not necessary. Also, we need a group leader to be able to sign up a full group without needing all of the names or individuals to sign up on their own. We have large corporations with one leaders who does it all. It is extremely discouraging and turning volunteer groups away from volunteering for this year's Day of Caring. We are such a small organization and the cost (while known upfront) is alot for us for a software that can't perform like we need it to for our biggest volunteer event.

This is a very user friendly way to connect the community through volunteering. it has all the features we were looking for

Would like to customize our domain for the site

I came into the position working with this software after it had already launched at our United Way. Before I came on I had experience working with Get Connected from the Agency side of the website so that helped in my learning process. The articles and webinars available for training were exceptionally helpful in training me and my colleagues on how to best use the site and train our agency managers to use it as well. I have heard nothing but good reviews from our agencies in regards to this software and how beneficial it has been for them in recruiting their volunteers. Get Connected has also served as a wonderful tool for allowing our United Way to spread the word and mission of our Volunteer Center to the community to build a larger volunteer base. Our number of newly registered users and opportunity responses grows exponentially each month.

Fantastic customer service and support. Rollover from our old system was painless. Seeing increased referrals and positive feedback from partner agencies. Only big complaint is it would be helpful if we could list advanced events on the calendar instead of the individual needs and if we could enter needs by shift instead of each shift individually. Looking forward to continued working with this system.

Pros: -I think the filter system for distance, interest, age, etc are great! This is especially helpful for students who are younger than 15 years old to find age appropriate volunteer opportunities -Very easy for Agency Managers to sign up Cons: -The feature to find an agency doesn't work. You can put in the agency name and it will no longer find it, but rather you have to look at the whole list. -The Group/Team volunteer opportunities is no longer available and this is a HUGE hinderance. -Not obvious for volunteers on how to sign-up

I'm a beginner at using this website as my county's new volunteer coordinator. So far, it's not been hard to use, but it does seem to be a little bit dated. Hopefully, when we're upgraded to 2.0 this will change, but I wish there was a way to have our streaming treats shown to visitors down the right or left side and I wish we had a better Facebook integration.

The Get Connected software was the perfect solution for our United Way. It is our mission to connect people with meaningful ways to serve but there was never a way to do that efficiently. Within just a few weeks of our launch, individuals were suddenly aware of the vast number of needs and had the tools to connect with organizations of all kinds. Our launch process was the smoothest I have ever experienced with a software company and the ongoing support is incredibly helpful. I believe Get Connected solves a number of issues with one product and is the best in the business.

This review will be mostly in regards to the service-learning module. Every semester we deal with a number of issues in regards to agency managers being confused about how to use the SLM. In some cases we have even stopped asking them to be involved in the process because it can cause them so much frustration. I believe that the main problem is that the website is not necessarily initially intuitive for new users. It is much easier to understand if you use it frequently, but if you infrequently use the website or are new to it, most users find that they need help figuring out how to use it.

There are almost no downsides to using Get Connected. Adding and editing agencies and their needs is such a breeze! Not to mention using the Advanced Event Module for our Day of Caring Event is great because we can always build off of previous years to make the process that much easier. If that wasn't enough, the support staff is always helpful and eager to answer questions whenever we've been stuck trying to figure anything out. Galaxy Digital, keep up the good work.

Get Connected is user friendly and can be incorporated directly into our own webpage. Our partner agencies can be added in a way that allows them to upload their volunteer opportunities directly and also manage events. Get Connected provides the tools we need to operate a successful community engagement program.

I wish there was a way for the administrator to be able to email certain agency's that have needs that have expired, or ongoing needs that are 3 years old, or events that happened two years ago in an easier manner. I do love how easy it is to post needs and events and to teach others how to use it. It is also something that anyone in the community could pull up and figure out how to use it very easily.