What’s new
Every change to Laurelroll, the free volunteer service award with proof, newest first. Follow the feed.
A What’s new page
- This page lists every change to Laurelroll, newest first. Follow it in a feed reader at /whats-new/feed.xml.
Signed letters on the impact page
- The impact page now also counts signed volunteer letters, the hours in them and academic awards.
- Test runs are never counted.
Free academic awards for schools and home schools
- Schools and home schools can give free Academic Excellence and Academic Achievement certificates. Paste a list of names on the academic certificate page and print every certificate.
- Each certificate has a laurel seal, the school’s own criteria and a verify page with a QR code. Laurelroll stores names only.
- New pages: end-of-year awards for schools, the homeschool academic award and a free alternative to the President’s Education Awards, with a guide on what ended.
New name: Laurelroll
- Goodtally is now Laurelroll, at laurelroll.com. Old goodtally.org links, records and awards keep working and redirect here.
- A new site icon.
Verification letters and an honours board
- The volunteer verification letter: fill it in, your supervisor confirms or corrects it by link, and the signed letter gets its own verify page.
- The honours board: an organization’s gold, silver and bronze volunteers on a lobby TV, and a version to embed on its website. Only volunteers who agreed are listed.
Guides
- Guides with plain answers about volunteer hours: is the PVSA still available, how to prove volunteer hours, and a verification letter sample.
Laurelroll opens
- A free volunteer record: log your hours and your supervisor confirms each entry by a private link. Every record has a verify page with a QR code.
- The Laurelroll Service Honor: bronze, silver and gold at the hour levels of the paused President’s Volunteer Service Award.
- For organizations: paste a roster to issue awards and printable certificates to every volunteer, with an optional public honor roll.