How it works
The Kaleo experience
Kaleo is a trusted app and platform that connects churches, volunteers, and local non-profits – simplifying the path to service.
Churches have motivated members who want to serve. Non-profits rely on volunteers to help deliver services to those in need. Kaleo helps engage church members and other volunteers and matches volunteer interests and availability to local non-profits’ needs in real time.
Churches benefit by offering members an easy way to start serving. Volunteers can sign up and support a non-profit through Kaleo in a variety of ways – through simple donations, working odd jobs, providing supplies, or even longer-term commitments such as trips and staff positions. Non-profits benefit by amplifying their mission and discovering expanding their volunteer community.
Kaleo also provides a powerful storytelling platform. Stories that celebrate the gifts, value, and community impact of service inspire others to get involved.
Connecting and engaging in Kaleo
Kaleo hosts the coordinating functions for churches, volunteers, and local non-profits.
- Churches and non-profits enroll their organizations in Kaleo and select staff to have administrative permissions (as “authorized users”) that allow them to create and maintain their organization’s information – including posting of needs for volunteers, information on upcoming events, and stories of service. Reporting dashboards provide visibility into volunteer activity to measure impact.
- Volunteers browse in Kaleo to learn about local non-profits and find volunteer needs that match their skills and interests. They can also share volunteer opportunities with others and respond to non-profits’ needs in the Kaleo app.
- Non-profits use Kaleo to communicate with interested volunteers that match their needs, to coordinate logistics.
- Churches, volunteers, and non-profits can share stories in Kaleo, fostering inspiration for others and offering insights into the community impact of service.
Getting started
Kaleo offers a connection between churches, volunteers, and non-profit organizations. In Kaleo, church leaders and non-profit staff set up as Kaleo administrators can update their organization’s details, list volunteer opportunities, and inspiring stories. If you’re a volunteer, you can easily see all this info, share it with others, and connect to opportunities that speak to you.
- Sign up your organization in Kaleo and pick a Subscription Plan.
- Share Kaleo with your congregation and encourage them to sign up as volunteers.
- Use reporting dashboards to monitor church member engagement and community impact.
- Share stories of service to celebrate your church’s impact and encourage increased involvement.
- Sign up your organization in Kaleo and pick a Subscription Plan.
- Share details about your mission and where you need volunteer support.
- Post needs and upcoming events that you’d like the community to know about.
- Use reporting dashboards to monitor volunteer engagement and community impact.
- Share stories of service to celebrate your organization’s impact and attract more volunteers.
- Download Kaleo and set up your profile.
- Enter your skills and interests.
- Browse non-profits and discover service opportunities that align with your skills and passions.
- Follow non-profit organizations to coordinate volunteer opportunities that interest you.
- Share your stories of service to celebrate with your community.
Activity dashboards and insights
Kaleo administrators (as “authorized users”) manage their organization’s information, listed needs for volunteers, and service stories. They manage communication with volunteers and can view dashboards that provide insights into the skills and interests of their Kaleo followers, volunteer activity categories, and organization activity categories over time.
FAQs
General
Yes, at some point in the future the entire User Experience of Kaleo will be translated to another language. Let us know what language you would like to see.
Presently, all chat/discussion messages are shown in the default language of the device used to view the messages. If a message is entered by someone in English and another person reads the message on a device set to Spanish, the second person will see the message in Spanish. If the second person replies in Spanish, the first person will see the reply in English.
Kaleo is free for volunteers to use to connect with any opportunity at any organization in their community.
Organizations need to sign up and choose a Subscription Plan. The first paid subscription for an organization comes with a 30 day free trial period.
Getting started
Yes. If you install Kaleo on more than one device and use the same email account each time, your settings will be shared on all those devices.
On the second and later devices, you can use the “I already have an account” option during setup.
Kaleo is available for iPhone/iPad, Android, and Windows. The links for each store are in the Get Started section of the home page.
Some functionality (e.g. activity dashboards) is only available on the admin site.
Kaleo administration
The admin portal is located at https://kaleoadmin.tuplesoftware.com.
To access the portal you need permissions from one or more organizations to see their activity. To be granted permission, contact the organization on that organization’s page in Kaleo using your Kaleo account email.
The activity dashboards are part of the Kaleo Admin site. The dashboards provides insights into actions taken by Kaleo users on needs, events and stories for an organization. For all followers of an organization, the dashboard shows the mix of skills and interests selected by those followers.
A safe and trusted platform
Secure and private data
Your data is your own. We will never sell or share it with external third parties.
Shared oversight
Users are empowered to help maintain a healthy and respectful atmosphere.
An ad-free space
We are committed to providing an ad-free haven, free from commercial exploitation.
