VolunteerMatch

I came on here to write this review to represent the organizations that DO benefit from VolunteerMatch. This is the number one way I find people to join my native wildflower seed collection initiative. I did notice yesterday that there is a pattern to some of the "interested potential volunteers" that come through, and after reading this review, I realize that these are probably scammers - scammers that I never hear from because my volunteer project doesn't involve any exchange of money - people just show up to collect native wildflower seeds. Anyhow - yes, I think on any website, there will be scammers, unfortunately. So we all just need to keep our wits about us. But VolunteerMatch is legit, and my volunteer-based program would have folded without it.

So far there have been two+ scammers trying to scam my nonprofit organization on volunteermatch.org. They would contact me and ask if I could send them my organization letterhead and they would fill in the volunteer service hours for their school or college. The first scammer said they need volunteer hours for college, then she changed her story she needed volunteer hours for a court order it was required, and when I asked her what is the lawyer's name she came back never mind it was not for a court order. The spelling in her email was off. 2nd scammer was pretending a college student at a local college and she might have taken a student's identity and pretended to be that student and she wanted my organization letterhead. I contacted volunteermatch.org about these issues and they do not care at all they allow these scammers to get right with things I told them campus police are involved and volunteermatch.org said they never heard anyone scamming nonprofits on volunteermatch.org