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Volunteers for Salesforce and Your Salesforce Instance
Volunteers for Salesforce uses some standard Salesforce objects—Contacts and Campaigns—to manage volunteers. Volunteers for Salesforce also introduces custom objects into your Salesforce org.
| Type of Object | Object Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Contact | Represents a volunteer. |
| Campaign | Represents a volunteer event or initiative. | |
| Custom | Volunteer Job | Tracks jobs to fill and skills needed. |
| Volunteer Shift | Tracks dates, times, and number of volunteers needed for a job. | |
| Volunteer Hours | Tracks the hours a volunteer spends with your organization. | |
| Job Recurrence Schedule | Sets up a series of recurring Shifts for a job. | |
| Volunteer Recurrence Schedule | Sets up a recurring schedule for a specific volunteer on a specific job. |
This diagram shows how some of the V4S objects work together:

- Getting Around in Volunteers for Salesforce
You can find the Volunteers for Salesforce app in the App Launcher. - New Fields Added to Standard Objects
Contacts in Volunteers for Salesforce are used to track volunteers. It's important to have additional data on those Contacts that is specific to volunteer management.
Getting Around in Volunteers for Salesforce
You can find the Volunteers for Salesforce app in the App Launcher.
- Click the App Launcher (
) at the end of the navigation bar in Salesforce. -
Click Volunteers.

Within the Volunteers app, you see the Volunteers tabs.

New Fields Added to Standard Objects
Contacts in Volunteers for Salesforce are used to track volunteers. It's important to have additional data on those Contacts that is specific to volunteer management.
Volunteers for Salesforce introduces these new fields on Contacts:
- Volunteer Status
- Volunteer Skills
- Volunteer Availability
- Volunteer Hours
- Volunteer Notes
- Volunteer Organization
- Volunteer Manager Notes
- First Volunteer Date
- Last Volunteer Date
- Volunteer Last Web Signup Date
- Volunteer Auto-Reminder Email Opt Out

Volunteers for Salesforce introduces these new fields on Campaigns:
- Number of Volunteers
- Volunteer Completed Hours
- Volunteers Still Needed
- Volunteer Jobs
- Volunteer Shifts
- Volunteer Website Time Zone


