No bribes were made in exchange for these testimonials.

A perfect fit! Having organized many PTA events over the years, I have sampled several online volunteer registration tools, but none passed the test. They were difficult to use and confused an already tedious process.

I found gold when I discovered VolunteerLocal. Gave them a test spin with our last school carnival and I am 100% sold. It is the IDEAL tool for any event requiring volunteers. The setup was easy, the sign up page was simple enough for novice internet users to navigate, the stats dashboard is awesome and the ability to export volunteer data was icing on the cake.

If I did have a technical question, Brian was swift to reply and super great to work with.

Thank you, VolunteerLocal! We will most definitely be using your product in the future. You saved us time and most of all, sanity. :)

- Kerri Sorenson, Los Cerritos PTA | loscerritos-lbusd-ca.schoolloop.com

VolunteerLocal was a godsend. It was one of those moments when I was searching for the perfect web application for my needs and found it. While I know it can be better, it really helped organize and streamline the way I have been able to manage our volunteers. An example last week when we had a last minute kitchen closure, in the past this could have been a disaster with volunteers showing up un-announced. Now that we schedule with VolunteerLocal, we can easily notify a group of cancellations, or modifications to the schedule. Overall, I am very happy with the application, and thankful to you for making it.

- Jesse Seaver, Curry Without Worry | www.currywithoutworry.org

Having a tool, as basic as that sounds, just having a tool for volunteers to sign up for our upcoming orientations and events, is so wonderful. VolunteerLocal is super easy to use and compatible with other users--because we have three or four people managing the events at a time--and it's consistent and helpful. We used to send emails back-and-forth and then create a spreadsheet from the email contacts. Sometimes we would accidentally sign up multiple volunteers for the same thing. Now, we have one place where we can keep track of what jobs are available and when. It's just perfect.

- Jody White, Dress For Success | www.dressforsuccess.org/desmoines

We used to use hard-copy forms that we put on our website--people filled them out and then faxed, mailed or emailed them back to us. I had to input each form into a spreadsheet, then place those volunteers based on our need for each job. I made email lists for each job and sent out schedules and job descriptions. For the walk this past year, I spent probably six full days organizing volunteers. VolunteerLocal has been so helpful! Now, I can spend my time fundraising instead of entering information into a spreadsheet. If I want to see how my volunteer database is going, I can just click the link and see how many have signed up, where we need more--everything. We can put job descriptions on the website, and we just couldn't do that before. This has been an amazing transition for us.

- Toni Mortensen, JDRF | greateriowa.jdrf.org

VolunteerLocal provides both the administrator and the volunteer critical tools to make volunteering fun, efficient and manageable. It's easy to use, provides automated communications & contributes significantly to a high retention rate.

- Stephen King, Executive Director of the Des Moines Arts Festival | www.desmoinesartsfestival.org

I just wanted to say thank you for all of your help with our VolunteerLocal page for the YESS Duck Derby! The program is an amazing and easy way for us to manage our large pool of volunteers, especially with so many events. Thank you for always responding quickly to my many questions and for providing the service at such an affordable rate. Thanks again!

- Jana Daisy, YESS | www.yessiowa.org

We used to coordinate all 240 volunteer shifts for the Iowa Craft Beer tent using a giant excel spreadsheet with hundreds of blacked-out and empty cells--we called it 'the Soduku Puzzle.' I also had a PDF document that I manually updated every three hours. It was a nightmare. Plus we were left with about 70 extra t-shirts after our first appearance at the State Fair because we didn't have an efficient way to record that information. VolunteerLocal has really improved the registration process for us. Our VolunteerLocal page went live at 8:00am on May 1st. In one hour, 140 spots were gone. After one day, I think there were only 18 spots left. Probably saved me about 100 hours of labor and I was able to customize my registration page to collect information on t-shirt sizes and colors. It was great. No leftover t-shirts, no Soduku Puzzles.

- Steve Linn, Iowa Craft Beer Tent | www.iowacraftbeertent.com

Before VolunteerLocal, we relied mostly on friends and word-of-mouth for volunteers. We tried reaching out to corporate businesses that had volunteer databases--we even put a blurb in the Des Moines register. The thing is, you can get some pretty crazy people that way. VolunteerLocal has been such an awesome tool and resource. We're in the beginning phases of our venture at Mo'Rub, and we are so appreciative to have VolunteerLocal to assist us! From farmer's markets to festivals across the state, VolunteerLocal has allowed us to easily recruit and communicate with our volunteers. Thank you, VolunteerLocal!

- Steph Jessen, Mo'Rub | www.morub.com

When I joined the board, we had a volunteer database on our website. I'm not a techie, but I'm savvy. I said, 'No. There is a better way to do this.' So we signed up for VolunteerLocal in early May and began promoting open volunteer positions in September--it was great. I could just click buttons to organize all my volunteers, whereas before I had to organize it all on Excel. VolunteerLocal has saved me days of work. Days! We're absolutely going to use VolunteerLocal again for next year's Suwanee Day celebration.

- Pascha Dudley, Suwanee Days | www.suwaneeday.com

Getting2Tri just hosted a first ever, paratriathlon training event in Charlotte, NC (last weekend). We used VolunteerLocal for the volunteer registration, management of jobs/shifts, and timely communications. The feedback was incredible! I can't tell you how many volunteers came up to me and commented how easy it was to register and know exactly what they were supposed to be doing. Thanks for having such a great product.

- Mike Lenhart, Getting2Tri | www.getting2tri.org

Thought you might like to see some of the positive feedback we got:

- Carl Anderson, WVBBTS | www.wvbbts.org

With great communication and customer service like you wouldn't believe, Volunteer Local has helped us expand and enhance our volunteer database and reach a new level of professionalism.

- Jed McGuire, Wildwood Hills Ranch | www.wildwoodhillsranch.org

Volunteers are the backbone of our national events, and VolunteerLocal's system allows us to easily manage a large volunteer force.

- Jeff Dyrek, National Events Director / USA Triathlon | www.usatriathlon.org

VolunteerLocal was an invaluable tool in our event preparation and execution. There is not a better volunteer management tool for the money.

- Al Lorenzen, Vice President of Sports & Development at Greater Des Moines CVB, host of the 2009 AAU Junior Olympic Games | www.catchdesmoines.com/sports/