Coming soon · A Corvian Labs product
Pawlunteer replaces the email chains, the spreadsheet of hours, the phone calls about who can’t make Tuesday, and the afternoon each month spent adding up points by hand. Set up the way your shelter already works.
Built with shelter staff and volunteers, for the way shelters actually run: weekly shifts, fosters, screening, a tablet by the door, and recognition that follows your own rules.
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Today
Email goes out on a date someone remembered to set, or not at all.
With Pawlunteer
An application arrives, a volunteer is accepted, a shift opens up, a certificate is about to run out: the right email goes out on its own.
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Today
A volunteer answers, and the reply sits in one coordinator’s inbox.
With Pawlunteer
The reply lands on the volunteer’s record, where the whole team can see the conversation.
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Today
Every “I can’t make Tuesday” is a phone call and a hole in the schedule.
With Pawlunteer
Volunteers drop a date themselves, regular weekly shifts included. The spot is offered to others and staff see it straight away.
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Today
Someone spends an afternoon a month working out recognition points by hand.
With Pawlunteer
Choose what an hour earns, give any role its own rate or limit, decide whether fostering counts, and add a waiting period. Pawlunteer applies your rules each month and staff see what to give each person.
Every shelter runs its program differently. You choose the roles, rules and words in Settings, and change them whenever you like.
Your roles, your questions. Each role’s checklist shows what a new volunteer still needs and whether it’s waiting on them or on you.
When an answer needs a closer look, a rule tells the people you choose, adds a program or adds a step to that person’s checklist.
Set weekly shifts and open shifts, choose how close to a shift volunteers can drop it, and which roles need staff approval to sign up.
A tablet by the door at each location, with a name and PIN, a badge, or both. When the alarm goes, staff see who is on site right now.
Mark the few roles that need training or a certificate, how long each lasts, and whether a lapsed one stops a sign-up.
Messages go out when things happen, written in your own templates, and replies thread onto the volunteer’s record.
Reports that start with the question you want answered, ready for board meetings, grants and the monthly recognition run.
Your logo and colours on what volunteers see. If you call volunteers, roles or training something else, Pawlunteer uses your words.
A volunteer’s phone showing “You’re clocked in”, beside a coordinator’s list of who is waiting, how long, and what for
Reports that start with a question: are we giving more hours than last year, where do our volunteer hours go, how many volunteers do we have
A shelter holds police checks and medical notes. Pawlunteer is built to hold as little as it can and guard the rest.
Pawlunteer is in its final round of testing. Ask for early access and I’ll be in touch as soon as it opens to new shelters, with a walkthrough built around your own program.
One plan with everything a shelter uses every day included, priced by how many active volunteers you have. Applicants, people still being screened and people who have left aren’t counted. You’ll get your price in a short conversation, not a sales funnel.
Yes. Bring your volunteers, hours and history from your current system or a spreadsheet. Pawlunteer matches people by email and shows you every difference before anything is changed.
That’s the point of it. Roles, forms, screening rules, scheduling rules, points and even the words Pawlunteer uses are all set in Settings, and you can change them whenever you like.
Pawlunteer is designed and built by Corey Paskewitz at Corvian Labs in Cambridge, Ontario, the same person you’ll talk to about setting it up.
Tell me a little about your volunteer program and I'll walk you through a volunteer's week and a coordinator's day with your shelter in mind.
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