What Volunteer Now does

Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL), operating as Volunteer Now, is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that runs a free regional volunteer-matching platform connecting individual volunteers with nonprofit agencies across Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties plus San Francisco. The platform is built on Galaxy Digital's GetConnected volunteer management software, which provides self-serve agency registration, volunteer opportunity and event posting, an agency directory, a calendar, and FAQ resources hosted at volunteernow.org. The organization additionally operates a separate disaster volunteering intake workflow (via Zoho Forms) for OnCall Disaster Volunteer registration, and partners with United Way Bay Area to support 211 service coordination across basic needs, health, food access, and disaster response.

The platform supports a diverse set of nonprofit customers across verticals including animal welfare (Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County), housing (Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County), basic needs and disaster response (United Way Bay Area), environment (Daily Acts), education and science (Robert Ferguson Observatory), and community sports (Empire Runners). The organization maintains offices in San Rafael (headquarters) and Petaluma, with headcount in the 11-50 range, and communicates with constituents through organic social channels under @capacity4change (Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram), an email newsletter, and a blog that announced a refreshed Volunteer Portal in March 2026.

Volunteer Now does not charge fees to either volunteers or nonprofit agencies for using the platform. As a private nonprofit, it is funded outside of platform revenue through grants, donations, and community support; no revenue, budget, donor concentration, or funding round data is disclosed in the source material. The go-to-market motion is community-led and self-serve: agencies sign up and post needs, volunteers browse and respond, and disaster response is handled through a dedicated intake form.

Name

Volunteer Now

Legal name

Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership

Website

https://volunteernow.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Volunteer Now (Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership, CVNL) is a Bay Area nonprofit that operates a free, GetConnected-powered online portal matching individual volunteers with nonprofit agencies across Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco counties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Volunteer Management Platform

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Disaster Relief & Humanitarian Aid Volunteering (EDAIAGAF)

Keywords

• Volunteer management platform
• Nonprofit volunteer matching
• Disaster response volunteering
• Community engagement services
• Nonprofit capacity building

Headquarters

HQ city

San Rafael

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform services for nonprofits: Free volunteer matching platform serving nonprofits in the Bay Area. The organization operates as a nonprofit itself, likely funded through grants and community support rather than direct fees from platform users.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Volunteer Now operates a free, self-serve volunteer matching portal for Bay Area nonprofits and residents, powered by Galaxy Digital's GetConnected technology. Nonprofits register and post volunteer needs, events, and agency profiles, while individuals browse and respond to opportunities; a dedicated disaster-volunteer intake form coordinates emergency response volunteer registration.

Product overview

Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL) operates the Get Connected Volunteer Portal, a volunteer management platform that serves the Bay Area nonprofit community. The platform consists of a unified portal where nonprofit organizations can register, post volunteer needs and events, and manage their volunteer opportunities, while volunteers can browse, search, and respond to available opportunities. Additional components include disaster volunteering intake forms, agency directory, calendar integration, and FAQ resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GetConnected Volunteer Portal A free, self-serve volunteer management platform that connects Bay Area nonprofit organizations with individual volunteers. Organizations register and post ongoing needs, events, and agency profiles, while volunteers browse, search, follow agencies, and respond to opportunities; built on Galaxy Digital's GetConnected technology.
• OnCall Disaster Volunteer Intake A dedicated disaster-response volunteer registration intake (built on Zoho Forms) that allows individuals to sign up to be deployed as on-call volunteers during emergencies in the Bay Area.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Galaxy DigitalcoreTechnology or IntegrationGalaxy Digital provides the GetConnected volunteer management platform technology that powers volunteernow.org. The platform enables volunteer matching, agency management, event calendar, and need posting functionality.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Catchafire: A skills-based volunteer matching platform connecting professionals with nonprofits for project-based engagements. Catchafire overlaps directly with CVNL's volunteer-matching model but differentiates by focusing on skilled, project-based pro bono work rather than general-purpose volunteering.
• Idealist: A leading global platform for volunteering, nonprofit jobs, internships, and social-impact opportunities. Idealist directly competes for both volunteer supply and nonprofit engagement, offering a similar self-serve marketplace model but with a broader, mission-driven job board that CVNL does not provide.
• JustServe: A free volunteer matching platform operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, connecting individuals with community service opportunities. JustServe directly competes with CVNL for volunteer attention in overlapping geographic markets and uses a similar self-serve listing approach.
• HandsOn Network: A national volunteer mobilization network historically affiliated with Points of Light, focused on local volunteer engagement through regional affiliates. HandsOn's affiliate model closely mirrors CVNL's regional volunteer-center structure, making it a structurally comparable peer even though its scope is national.
• VolunteerMatch: The largest online volunteer matching platform in the United States, connecting volunteers with nonprofit opportunities nationwide. VolunteerMatch is the most direct comparable to CVNL's GetConnected portal in terms of core functionality, target audience, and self-serve matching model, though it operates at a national rather than regional scale.

Emerging players

• DoSomething.org: A youth-focused nonprofit driving social-impact campaigns and volunteer action among young adults. While DoSomething emphasizes campaign-driven engagement rather than traditional volunteer matching, it pulls from the same pool of Bay Area volunteers and competes for mindshare in the social-impact space.

Others

• VolunteerHub: A volunteer management software vendor serving nonprofits, schools, and corporate programs with sign-up, scheduling, and reporting tools. VolunteerHub is a comparable alternative to Galaxy Digital's GetConnected platform and represents the broader volunteer-management technology ecosystem in which CVNL operates.
• Galaxy Digital: The technology vendor powering CVNL's GetConnected volunteer portal and serving many similar regional volunteer centers nationally. As CVNL's core infrastructure provider, Galaxy Digital is a strategic upstream enabler rather than a competitor, but it shapes CVNL's feature set, roadmap, and operational resilience.

Broad incumbents

• Points of Light: A national nonprofit focused on volunteer engagement, civic service, and social impact, having absorbed the HandsOn Network. Points of Light operates a much broader portfolio including advocacy, corporate programs, and convenings, making it a broader incumbent rather than a direct marketplace competitor to CVNL.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/vcsonomacounty
• Facebookfacebook.com/VolunteerCenterOfSonomaCounty
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/volunteer-center-of-sonoma-county
• Instagraminstagram.com/capacity4change

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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