Help every member find a place to give

Each table at the fair gets its own QR code, and a member who scans it sees that area's volunteer work. The member describes their interests in their own words, and Hineni suggests roles from the congregation's list. The sign-up goes straight to the lay leader who owns that table's area, with a record of where the interest began.

The same codes keep working after the fair. A congregation can print them in the bulletin, place them on its website or add them to a new-member welcome. Staff can export interests, requests and follow-up records to Excel, and every export is logged.

A High Holiday role can carry sessions, a capacity and a waitlist, so the congregation can see which services still need people. Roles such as greeting and kitchen help show their dates, places and family rules before anyone signs up. One adult can book named household members in a single step, and each role's age and supervision rules apply. When a place opens on a full session, the next person on the waitlist gets an offer they must confirm. Hineni follows quiet hours and Shabbat and holiday sending rules, and clergy set that policy.

A caring committee can list its recurring needs as roles, each owned by a named lay leader who follows up. A leader can invite a specific person to a role, and only that person can accept. A leader can also search for members with a particular skill, among members who chose to be found. Hineni also arranges rides to services, and the pickup address is shared only after the driver and rider both agree.

A circle is a small group organized around a topic, concern or cause, and it can own volunteer work. Work a circle offers to the whole congregation waits for staff review before it appears.

Hineni handles volunteering, and ShulCloud or another synagogue management system keeps membership, dues, billing and the directory. The office keeps one system of record for households. Hineni keeps one record per person for volunteer interests, sign-ups and follow-up. ShulCloud documents no public application programming interface (API) for outside software, so Hineni imports members and households from a ShulCloud export file. Nobody has to retype them.