Mobilize vs Track It Forward

Mobilize is a web and API platform for mission-driven organizations that organize events and recruit volunteers. Organizations can create single-shift, recurring, and multiple-shift events, as well as virtual and in-person events and actions asking people to call legislators’ offices. Volunteer engagement tools include automated email and text messages, post-event surveys, personalized experiences, and event search and discovery. Organizations can recruit volunteers to host events, create customizable campaigns, reach potential hosts across channels, and set approval processes and permission levels. The platform includes shift scheduling, hours tracking, custom forms, and volunteer self-signup. It provides real-time event data, CSV export, read and write APIs, and SQL mirrors or database replicas. Listed integrations include Salesforce, NGP VAN, EveryAction, PDI, ActionKit, and others. Mobilize says its network includes more than 3,000 mission-driven organizations and over 11 million supporters. Its limited starter account costs nothing and covers 5 team members, the next 5 events or online actions, and up to 50 signups or 500 petition signatures. The service provider is EveryAction, Inc., doing business as NGP VAN.

Track It Forward helps organizations record volunteer time and track progress toward configured requirements or goals. Volunteers can log hours online, in the mobile app, or through onsite check-in. Organizations can create event calendars, collect RSVPs, customize notifications, and verify event hours. Reports can be generated instantly, grouped or filtered, and exported as Excel documents. In the app, volunteers can view timesheets and sign up for events, while administrators can add volunteers, view hours, and approve or decline submissions. School integrations support many student-information, learning-management, and identity systems, including Blackbaud, FACTS SIS, PowerSchool, Canvas, Google Classroom, Clever, and ClassLink; these are for student service-hour programs, and interested organizations are asked to contact the maker. The free plan is for grassroots organizations with fewer than 25 volunteers. Basic costs $13.25 a month for 100 users, Premium $25 a month for 100 users, and Advanced $37 a month for 100 users. A 30-day trial requires no payment method; accounts not upgraded afterward move to the free plan.