Friends - Ask people and alumni to share with their friends. Give them some triggers for thinking of names. Some examples might be family, small group members, friends, roommates, colleagues, etc.
Social Media - It’s good to leverage things like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Be intentional with your messaging and create clear calls to action in each of your postings. Create links...
Six Tips for Effective Short Term Trip Recruiting
Alumni - Reach out to alumni who have served with your organization before or have specifically been to this location or worked with this partner.
Clarify the Win - Quickly state the purpose of the trip and who you are looking to recruit as a team member. The more clearly you clarify from the beginning, the better chance you have of fin...
A Fundraising Catalyst
As we have worked with many organizations and churches to talk through various challenges (and remember, we are passionate about partnering with you to tackle these challenges). One of these challenges that comes up often is helping trip participants raise funds and know about the tools they have available for raising funds. The team at ServiceReef has created a tool...
What is Limited Registration?
Limited Registration provides an experience for users to quickly view a serving opportunity and sign up (on the event page) with just their name, email, and phone number. Consider a time when you are having a campaign for local serving events and you need to quickly display upcoming opportunities and have people sign up (perhaps in a lobby after church for any ...
Here are a few things to consider when building your budget...
Preparation Retreat
Lodging & Meals at Retreat
Transportation to Retreat
Training Resources
Team Gear
Meetings
Travel to Site
Travel around Site
Lodging for Event
Meals for Event
Visas
Insurance
Project Funds
Gifts
Debrief Expenses
Post-Event Meetings
Post-Event Resources
It’s important to keep track of your finances, especially your expenses. We also understand that every organization managing their finances and budgets very unique to their systems and processes. Our hope is that this tool will enable you to efficiently manage finances, expenses, and reconciliation with minimal work. The budgeting tool is built to allow three primary functions - create...
Welcome to the small groups search page. Our goal here was simple… to help people quickly find their way to the group that meets their interests OR to help them start a group of their own.
Geography is important and it’s good to see what’s near or what’s not close to us. Our first impression we desire to give people is to view where the current groups are and be a...
Let’s take a quick look at our public page to acquaint ourselves with what the group user experience is going to be. Here’s what you will see:
Group Header
Group Name
Edit button for group leaders (quick access to management portal)
Group Description
Group Leader
Email link for group leader
Group image (personalizing the group)
General Information...
From this point forward, ServiceReef will no longer authorize the full application fee on the credit card when the trip participant first applies. Instead, only $1 will be authorized at the time of application. If the participant is accepted on the trip, the admin will still get the pop-up allowing the admin to charge the full application fee or skip the application fee (e.g. for trip leaders, ...
We are excited to announce the release of an organization wide email sender. To date there has only been the option for an email sender (feature) at the opportunity level. Now you can email your entire audience of those who have participated in an opportunity, given to participants, or participated in a small group.
Here are the features:
Audience - Select the audience for your ema...
COVID-19 has presented many new challenges and opportunities in the world of missions. Thankfully things are opening back up and we're excited to dive into a new day of global missions. At ServiceReef, we believe there are always opportunities to accelerate the efforts of global missions and intentionally engage people. This free ebook is designed to help you launch back into short-term trips well.
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