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Volunteer network app 'Waves and Woods' proposed to centralize sign-ups, rewards and hours across North Coast
Summary
A local volunteer organizer presented Waves and Woods, an app and rewards program to track volunteer hours, centralize sign-ups and offer digital badges, weekly/monthly drawings and business-donated rewards to boost volunteerism countywide.
Christie Waits, a Seaside resident and volunteer organizer, presented a pilot digital platform she developed — Waves and Woods Volunteer Network — to the council as a tool to increase volunteer recruitment, tracking and recognition across Clatsop County.
Waits said volunteerism is declining nationwide and locally and that the app’s goals are to centralize sign-ups, standardize hour tracking and diversify volunteer rewards, from digital badges to weekly and monthly gift-certificate…
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