For many organizations, the help of volunteers is critical to accomplishing the organization's mission. An online community can support that volunteer group in several ways:

• Give volunteers a voice and a feeling of belonging
  
• Enable the organization to post and share information
• Enable both volunteers and the staff to coordinate and execute activities
• Give potential volunteers insight into the volunteer experience
• Present and support time-sensitive need for volunteers.

Online community builds on existing personal connections in your organization, and extends them to create even richer personal bonds. These bonds encourage both temporary and long-term volunteers to stay engaged with your organization.

Passionate and empowered volunteers will spend more time helping further your core mission, and do so for more years. Not only will it help your organization get more value out of your volunteers, a GoLightly online community will enrich your volunteers' lives.

The success of any volunteer-powered initiatives rests heavily on being able to inform the volunteers properly, and to schedule and support them in the performance of their activities.  An online community permits instant communication of news and events, and can be a critical element in ensuring that volunteers are at the right place at the right time doing the right thing.