Canadian Society of Plant Biologists
Art Dunham of Vital Volunteers has done a great job of customizing the system to meet our needs. The membership renewal process for our society is now automated and is saving us a tremendous amount of time. The annual and regional 2016 meetings of the CSPB used Vital Volunteers for conference registration. The customer service was excellent and there was about a 50% cost savings relative to 2015 when another provider was used.SHELIA MACFIE Treasurer, Canadian Society of Plant Biologists
Shadow Lakes Association
Our initial goals were to modernize our website and to enable our non-technical executives to keep it current themselves. To our pleasant surprise, Art had already developed all the essential functionality to satisfy our requirements, saving us a lot of time, effort and expense. Indeed he has more than we need. His solutions are easy enough to use that our entire executive can now access his system and update our data without his ever having had to visit us to teach us how. Our members benefit from the website’s improved timeliness; and our executives benefit from having immediate on-line access to the documents and data that are key to the smooth operation of our association. Adding new capabilities has also been quick and easy – during last spring’s flooding we were quickly able to add a Lost and Found page for missing items. And a recent enhancement simplified sending high and low water warnings to our members. Needless to say, we are pleased with Art’s responsiveness to our ongoing needs and with the cost-effectiveness of his solutions.PAUL BASSETT Shadow Lakes Association
Friends of Arden
Art has been most forthcoming in making the Vital Volunteers program available to our group. His program is a very useful tool in terms of helping to coordinate many disparate types of material and making it accessible to large numbers of people. One of the features that I have come to appreciate is that of having various individuals enabled to input and update different areas of the program depending on and reflecting each person’s responsibilities. Another value in the program is that of its capacity. It is capable of managing great numbers of information categories and sub-categories. This has proven useful as the need to build in new areas as the group and its processes evolve. It should also be said that Art is very responsive to requests for assistance and is prepared to guide those having problems through their difficulties.T. KENNEDY Friends of Arden
