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This is Capstone Volunteer, the scheduling tool for a campaign's field program.

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You're looking at a sample council race.

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Every volunteer here is made up, but the shape is real.

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There are eight wards, a week of early voting, and an election day about a month away.

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This is the election grid.

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Each voting site is a row, grouped by ward, and each shift is a column.

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Filled cells are covered.

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The empty ones are shifts you still need to fill.

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Three organizers can work this grid at once, and they see each other's changes as they happen.

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Here's the part a spreadsheet can't do.

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Conflicts and gaps puts every problem in one list.

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Two volunteers are booked at two different sites at six in the morning on election day.

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The grid caught it the moment it happened.

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Below that are the open shifts, grouped by ward, so you can work through them in order.

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Let's fill one.

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Tap Fill, and the panel ranks who to ask.

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People who live in the ward come first.

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Then people who've worked this site before, and people who actually show up.

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One tap books them, and the conflict check runs again.

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Field work has its own calendar.

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Canvass launches and phone banks sit here, day by day.

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You can see who's booked and how many seats are still open, days before the weekend.

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For things people sign up for on their own, there are events.

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This phone bank has two time slots and fourteen people signed up.

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Each event gets a public sign-up page.

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Reminders go out the evening before and the morning of, and afterward you mark who came.

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Every volunteer has one clean record.

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Sign-ups from a spreadsheet, a QR code, or an event all merge into the same person.

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Their history follows them, so by October you know who shows up.

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Reports show coverage by ward, so you know where to push.

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During early voting and on election day, this summary lands in the field director's inbox at seven every morning.

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Any other day, it's one click away.

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You can also just ask.

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The assistant reads your live campaign data and shows where its answer came from.

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Ask which wards have the most open gaps, and it lists them.

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That's Capstone Volunteer.

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One price covers your whole campaign, with every seat included.

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Open the live demo and try it yourself, or see the plans at capstonevolunteer.com.