# The Sunday night message becomes a typed volunteer record by Monday.

You automate nonprofit volunteer sign-up by putting a conversational agent in front of the registration conversation. It asks for their name, availability, and which program pulled them in one question at a time, types the answers into a structured record, and posts that record to your CRM before anyone re-types a Google Form.

## The process this page is about

Not "AI for nonprofits". One process, the one that decides whether someone who wants to help actually shows up: the volunteer sign-up, the message that arrives before anyone has spoken to a coordinator.

- **Who starts it**: Someone who heard about you from a neighbor, a flyer, or a search result, usually on a phone, usually not during office hours.
- **What it costs today**: A Google Form that dumps into a spreadsheet nobody checks until Monday, or a PDF sign-up sheet that asks the same six questions of a first-timer and someone who has volunteered for years.
- **What it has to produce**: A typed volunteer record: who they are, when they can help, which program fits, and whether they have agreed to a background check.
- **of volunteer sign-up forms started on a phone actually get finished, the device most people use to start**: 35% (source: Feathery)

## What it asks, and what it never asks

You name the fields your sign-up form already has. It does the asking, in whatever order the story comes out, and it keeps asking until the required ones are filled.

| Field | Type | Required | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| full_name | text | yes | Identity on the volunteer record |
| email | email | yes | How the coordinator follows up |
| phone | phone | no | A faster way to reach back when timing matters |
| availability | text | yes | Matches them to a shift that actually exists |
| program_interest | text | yes | Routes to the right program team |
| prior_experience | text | no | Context for fit, never used to screen someone out |
| background_check_consent | boolean | yes | Required before any shift with vulnerable neighbors |
| motivation | text | no | What brought them to the door, in their words |

### And what it will not do

- It never asks what someone earns, owns or receives in benefits to decide whether they qualify for help. Need is stated here, not proven.
- It never promises a specific service, amount or timeline of assistance. That is a staff decision, never the agent’s.
- The moment anything sounds like a safety crisis, it stops asking questions and says to call emergency services or connects them with a real person right now.
- It never confirms whether an employer will match a gift, or states a gift is tax-deductible as advice. The finance team confirms both.
- It never confirms a volunteer shift, role or start date in chat. That depends on a background check and a coordinator’s calendar.
- It never invents a field. If they did not say it, the record says "Not captured" instead of a guess.

## Try the run yourself

Six situations a small nonprofit actually handles, each running its own agent with its own fields. Pick one and answer it the way a real person would, out of order and mid-thought, and watch it ask the follow-up instead of accepting the blank.

- [I want to volunteer](https://joina.chat/l/fh-intake): Chat widget. New volunteer sign-up, in the corner of your site.
- [I need help this week](https://joina.chat/l/fh-urgent): Conversation page. Say what’s going on and watch it never ask you to prove it.
- [Does my company match, or can I give stock](https://joina.chat/l/fh-eligibility): Conversation page. Giving questions answered before anyone commits.
- [It’s been a while since I gave](https://joina.chat/l/fh-recall): Conversation page. No guilt, just a way back in.
- [I need to step back from volunteering](https://joina.chat/l/fh-cancel): Conversation page. The handoff, not a hard sell to stay.
- [Our grant report is due](https://joina.chat/l/fh-report): Conversation page. The reporting period, in your own words, not a form.

## Frequently asked questions

**What does Gnosari do for a nonprofit?**

Gnosari runs the conversations a nonprofit handles today with sign-up forms and an overflowing inbox: the volunteer who wants to help, the person asking for a service, the donor with a question about their gift, the grantee with a report due. It asks one question at a time on your programme pages or through a link, then posts a typed record to your CRM, so staff spend their time on people instead of data entry.

**How do I capture volunteer sign-ups that come in on a Sunday night?**

Create a free Gnosari account and tell it which fields your sign-up form already has: interests, availability, skills, location, background check consent, contact. Put the link on your programme pages and in your newsletter. Gnosari runs the conversation at any hour, follows up when availability is vague, and posts the volunteer record to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud or Bloomerang through a webhook, Zapier or Make. The volunteer coordinator opens a complete record on Monday.

**Will Gnosari ask someone in need to prove they qualify?**

No. Gnosari is instructed never to ask what someone earns, owns or receives in benefits, and never to make anyone justify a need before it is recorded. It never promises a specific service, amount or timeline either, because that is a staff decision. The moment anything sounds like a safety crisis, it stops asking questions and says plainly to call emergency services, or that it is connecting them with a real person right now.

**Can Gnosari answer a donor about employer matching, or take a grant report?**

Gnosari collects the gift type and the employer's name if a donor mentions one, but never confirms or estimates whether a match will apply and never states tax-deductibility as advice: the finance team confirms both. For grantees, a separate operational agent collects the reporting period and outcomes in their own words, flags whether spending is running under or over budget, and takes a follow-up contact. It never tells them the report is accepted; that stays a staff review.

**Does Gnosari work with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud or Bloomerang?**

Yes, through a webhook. The moment a record is complete, Gnosari posts a signed JSON payload to the address you give it, and Zapier or Make routes it into Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Bloomerang or the CRM you already run. There is no Gnosari app to install on either side, and the record is already in your Gnosari inbox before delivery starts, so a down endpoint never loses a volunteer or a donor.

## Five minutes from now your after-hours messages could be already a typed record.

Build the agent, put it on your programs pages, and watch the first signup arrive. Free to start, no card.

Full page: https://gnosari.com/for/nonprofit