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title: Manage Volunteers
slug: manage-volunteers
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createdAt: 2024-03-05T15:26:13.281Z
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Managing your volunteers is easy in Ludus and can be handled simply through the **Volunteers** tab.

To navigate to management, go to **More**, on the top navigation --> **Volunteers**, then select the **Volunteers** page.

*The ****Volunteers**** page provides the following:*

- A list of all of your volunteers.
- The ability to edit the roles they can select from.
- The ability to archive a Volunteer who is no longer active.
- The ability to send messages to one or more volunteers.
- The ability to send a request to serve a specific shift/opportunity to one or more volunteers
- The Ability to Add a New Volunteer.
- Sort the list by the roles they are authorized for.
- The ability to edit a volunteer's information
- The ability to Archive and View Archived/Denied Volunteers.
- The ability to import volunteers.

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A banner will appear when you have volunteers to review and approve or deny.
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### Send a Request to Serve

Requests to serve sends your selected volunteers a message asking them to cover a shift that you have selected.  

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A request to serve can be sent by all Admin levels.
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To send a Request to Serve

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**Select** the volunteer or volunteers to send the request to by selecting the checkboxes next to each person you wish to send the request to.
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Click the **Request to Serve** button. 
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Select the opportunity from the pop-up, as well as which shift, or all shifts if there is more than one.

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Click Continue.
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You will be taken to the opportunity that you set the request for.  Here you can select other volunteers to contact if desired, then click **Next** at the bottom of the page.
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A new pop-up will appear in which you can write a message to send to the selected volunteers.
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Click to send your message.
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### Send a Message

You can message any or all volunteers by selecting the checkboxes next to the people you want to contact, then clicking Send Message.  This will open a pop-up where you can compose a quick message to send.  

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Messages can be sent by all User levels.
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### Edit a Volunteer's information

You can edit a volunteer's information by clicking Edit next to the volunteer's name on the Volunteer roster.

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A pop-up will then appear for you to edit the volunteer's information.

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