The Volunteer doctype allows you to record a Volunteer's details.

Volunteers are simply contacts in your ERPNext database with one or more volunteering programs. The contact may be an individual, a household, an organisation, or some other contact sub-type

To create a new Volunteer go to:

> Non Profit > Volunteer > New

Volunteer

Email: Email field is the id of the Member doctype.

Volunteer Type: Volunteer Type is a link to the field Volunteer Type Doctype. Volunteer can select available Doctype.

Address and Contact Section: This Section is linked to address and contact doctypes.

Volunteer Availability Section: This section is a child table which contains a select field to check the volunteer's availability. A volunteer can select availability such as weekly, morning etc

Volunteer Skills Section: This section is a child table which contains data field about the volunteer skills. A volunteer can add multiple skill for eg. Desk Job, Hospitality, Food management, computer operator, etc.

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