Operational FAQs

Food banks have many operations that must be overseen on an ongoing basis. From handling scheduling of services to overseeing volunteer management, there are many things occurring at once which often leads food bank workers to have a heavy manual workload. Automation transforms a food bank's operations by streamlining many of the regular administrative tasks a food bank handles such as communications, scheduling, volunteer agency partner registration and more.

By automating these duties, food banks are able to prioritize tasks that require more oversight and begin to reduce the overall workload.

Food banks often experience a variety of challenges with their daily operations. Some of the core challenges food banks may face include the following:

• High manual workload: Food banks have a high administrative workload that must be overseen to keep things running smoothly. With many different duties going on at once, it is often difficult for staff to prioritize things.
  
  
• Difficulties gathering volunteers: Volunteers: Volunteers play a central role in food bank operations. It is common for food banks to struggle to gather volunteers especially on short notice.
  
  
• Increasingly high demand: Currently food banks are seeing an increasing number of people who need support from food banks. With such a high demand it is often difficult for food banks to keep up with the number of clients.
  
  
• Client accessibility: Food banks are beginning to adopt more accessible practices for clients who may face barriers coming into the food bank at the set time. This means that food banks must find ways to offer home deliveries and separate pick-up times to ensure clients can access the products they need.

These are just some of the challenges that food banks are often experiencing in their operations. As food banks become increasingly needed by individuals these concerns become more apparent. SimplyCast has created our set of use case specially tailored to tackle these exact concerns.

There are several ways your food bank can benefit from our collection of use cases. We have worked hard to create a dynamic set of hyperautomation systems that tackle many of the core challenges food banks face. Below are some of the ways your food bank can benefit.

• Reduce the manual workload: All of our use cases allow food banks to begin to reduce their manual workload. Whether it be reducing manual communications or alleviating challenges in registration for volunteers or agencies, there are numerous ways our use cases allow you to reduce the workload. This in turn allows more human-centered tasks to be made priority.
  
  
• Gather more volunteers: With easier registration and promotion, food banks can begin to retain more volunteers and nurture current volunteers.
  
  
• Engage clients better: Client engagement can be greatly improved with automation. By automating communications you can ensure clients receive ongoing messages about your food bank and receive personalized reminder messages about pick up/delivery days.

SimplyCast offers the Volunteer Registration & Opportunities use case for optimizing the management of volunteers. This use case tackles both volunteer registration and the promotion of volunteer opportunities. Streamlining volunteer sign up with dynamic digital forms that allow for seamless sign up, alongside automating how opportunities are shared with current and new volunteers.