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How many volunteers do you need?
Change the numbers to match your race. Your answer updates as you type. No sign-up.
Your answer
Recruit about
374 volunteers
- Shifts to fill
- 280
- Volunteer spots
- 560
- Spots to book, with backups
- 747
- People on Election Day
- 107
Book 747 spots so 560 are filled after no-shows.
Now book those people into every shift
- Every shift sits on one grid, from canvass launches to election day.
- The gap panel ranks who to ask by ward and by who shows up.
- Reminders go out the day before, and no-shows are tracked.
The gap panel tells you who to text for each open shift. In a 2020 test with 1,220 volunteers, people asked by text showed up more than 3 times as often as people sent only an email. Read the study.
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How we count
- Shifts to fill: for each site and day, the hours open divided by the shift length, rounded up.
- Volunteer spots: shifts times the volunteers you want per shift.
- Spots to book: extra spots so the no-shows still leave every shift full.
- Volunteers: spots to book divided by how many shifts each person takes, rounded up.
Volunteer calculator questions
Why book more spots than I need?
Some people who say yes will not come. Booking a few extra spots means every site still has enough people.
Does this work for canvasses and phone banks?
Yes. Count each launch site as a site, the days you run as early voting days, and set Election Day hours to your last push.
What is in the shift plan file?
One row for every site, day, and shift, with how many people to book. It opens in Excel or Google Sheets.