Hi Cindy,

Contacting the Volunteer Coordinator at The John and Mable Ringling Museum
of Art will be a great resource for you. They made that transition about 3
years ago. She worked on cleaning up Volunteer Works and importing it into
the new Raisers Edge database.

Best of luck! It's a huge job.

Rebecca

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Cindy Boyer <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> We are going to start using Raisers Edge as our database management
> software by the end of the year. It will be used for membership,
> development, event and volunteer management. I am charged with deciding how
> we would like to organize the volunteer information.
>
> For those of you who manage your volunteer database as part of Raisers
> Edge. I'm looking for suggestions on what has been most useful, what you
> wish you had included from the beginning, any other details that might keep
> me from reinventing the wheel.
>
> We have about 500 volunteer records,  and want to use the database for
> mailings, for keeping track of special skills, for indicating what events or
> jobs volunteers prefer, etc.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Cindy Boyer
> Director of Museums and Education
> The Landmark Society of Western New York
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> Rochester NY  14608
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