Welcome to the Volunteer Value Calculator!
Much of what volunteers bring to organizations cannot be counted or measured such as their generosity and commitment. There may be times, however, when it would be useful to measure at least some aspect of volunteer contributions. The Volunteer Value Calculator is designed to assist you in measuring the economic contribution of volunteers. The Volunteer Value Calculator cannot determine all the value that volunteers add to your organization, but it will provide you with an estimate of the economic value of their contributions.
The Volunteer Value Calculator is a new, easy-to-use, online tool designed to help you calculate the economic value of the volunteers at your organization.
The Volunteer Value Calculator is based on work done for the International Year of Volunteers on calculating the economic value of volunteers. If you would like to read this background material, you may download a copy of the manual "Assigning economic value to volunteer activity: eight tools for efficient program management / Michelle Goulbourne, Don Embuldeniya. Toronto: Canadian Centre for Philanthropy; Volunteer Canada, 2002." Background information (.pdf 1MB)
The Volunteer Value Calculator is designed to produce different types of information on the economic value of volunteers. There are eight separate calculations in the Volunteer Value Calculator, categorized into three strategic areas:
- Human resource productivity measures
- Volunteer program efficiency measures
- Community support measures
You will need to consider the purpose of obtaining this information (i.e., who it is for, when will you use it, etc.) before knowing which of the calculations will be most useful to you. You may be only interested in a few calculations --or you may want to calculate all eight!
Before you begin, you may want to follow the following steps:
- Print the list of acronyms that are used in the calculator for quick reference
Click Here to Print List
- Decide which calculation(s) you wish to perform
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- Click Start or Continue to begin
- Then click Continue or choose which strategic area you are interested in from the upper menu bar
- Ensure that you have all required information to proceed with that calculation
- Proceed with calculation(s)
- When you are finished, print a report of your results
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