Track your veteran volunteers and show your We Honor Veterans program is active.
Recruit veteran volunteers, hold pinning ceremonies, and run salutes — then keep a real record of who took part and how many hours they gave, ready for a level review and your board.
- Veteran-volunteer roster
- Participation by date range
- No patient data
A real VolunteerLedger view, shown with sample agency data.
A Veteran area of service, kept on its own ledger
Your veteran work should stand on its own, not dissolve into a single combined volunteer total. Create a Veteran area of service and tag every related hour to it — so the program reads apart from administrative, auxiliary, and bereavement work the moment you open a report.
That one consistent tag does the organizing for you. Leadership can see what the veteran initiative contributes at a glance, and you can answer a question about it without hand-filtering a spreadsheet. One area, applied the same way every time, keeps the program legible all year.
Pinning ceremonies and salutes, logged as they happen
The moments that define the program — pinning and recognition ceremonies, veteran-to-veteran companion visits, salute-to-service events, outreach to veteran groups in your community — each become a dated hour entry against the Veteran area, captured while the details are fresh.
Over a quarter or a year that builds an honest account of what the program actually did and who showed up for it. When a reviewer, your board, or a funder asks, the activity is already documented entry by entry — not reconstructed from memory the week it is due.
Your veteran-volunteer team, named and dated
Assign the Veteran area to the volunteers who run the program — many of them veterans themselves — and your roster becomes a clear picture of the team behind it. Each profile carries a start date, so years of service are calculated for you, no math required.
That is the foundation for recognizing the right people at the right time: the veteran volunteer who has quietly anchored the program for a decade, this year's new recruits, and everyone between. The roster says who they are; the dates say how long they have given.
A participation summary your level review can use
When it is time to document the program, run the Volunteer Hours report on the Veteran area for the period in question. You get a clean, print-ready summary — hours by the program, the volunteers who took part, totals you can stand behind — that drops straight into a packet for a level review or a partner update.
VolunteerLedger supplies the participation record; the recognition level itself is awarded through the We Honor Veterans program. What you bring to the table is a complete, current account of the work instead of a hurried tally pulled together at deadline.
Honor the volunteers, then report the participation
The veteran program lives on two things: recognizing the people who carry it, and proving it is active when someone asks. VolunteerLedger handles both from the same record.
Milestones that surface on time
Set hours and service-year tiers, and the system flags when a veteran volunteer crosses one — so the pin and the thank-you happen on schedule, not late.
The team, ranked by contribution
See hours this year and last activity for every veteran volunteer, so you know who to celebrate now and who might need a gentle nudge back to the calendar.
A participation figure on demand
Pull total program hours, the volunteers behind them, and the period covered into one print-ready page whenever a review, a partner update, or the board needs it.
Built for the people who run the veteran program
The coordinator who recruits them
Brings veteran volunteers into the program, logs their hours, and keeps the record current without a side spreadsheet.
The We Honor Veterans program lead
Owns the level review and partner reporting, and needs the participation numbers ready instead of reconstructed.
The veteran-services liaison
Connects volunteers to veteran patients and community groups, and wants the outreach and pinning activity captured as it happens.
Leadership and the board
Want one clear page that shows the veteran program is active — the hours, the team, the recognition behind it.
VolunteerLedger is an independent companion tool — not affiliated with NHPCO or the We Honor Veterans program. It does one thing for your veteran initiative and does it well: it keeps a complete, separable record of the veteran volunteers and the hours behind them, so the recognition and the reporting take care of themselves.
Veteran-program tracking, answered
How do I keep our veteran program's hours separate from everything else?
Give the program its own Veteran area of service and tag every related entry to it — pinning ceremonies, veteran-to-veteran companion visits, salute-to-service events, and outreach to veteran groups. Because each hour is tagged to that one area, you can pull a total for the veteran program alone, for any date range, without filtering it out of a combined spreadsheet by hand.
Can I see which of our volunteers are veterans themselves?
Yes. Assign the Veteran area of service to the volunteers who serve in the program — many of whom are veterans themselves — and your roster reads as a clear veteran-volunteer team. Paired with each person's start date and years of service, it tells you who carries the program today and who has anchored it the longest, so the right people get recognized at the right time.
Does this prove our We Honor Veterans program is active for a level review?
It gives you the participation record behind that proof. Run the Volunteer Hours report on the Veteran area for the period under review and you get a print-ready summary of who took part, what activities happened, and how many hours went into the program. That is the activity documentation you bring to a level review — VolunteerLedger records the participation; the recognition level itself is awarded through the We Honor Veterans program.
Is VolunteerLedger affiliated with NHPCO or We Honor Veterans?
No. VolunteerLedger is an independent product from MortonApps LLC and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) or the We Honor Veterans program. It is a companion tool that helps your agency run the volunteer side — recording the veteran volunteers, their hours, and their recognition — while those program names remain the property of their respective owners.
Does any veteran patient information go into VolunteerLedger?
Never, by design. VolunteerLedger records volunteer participation, not patient care. There are no patient fields and nowhere to link an hour to a veteran in your care. It does not need patient names, diagnoses, visit notes, or medical record numbers — patient-care documentation for the veterans you serve stays in your EMR while VolunteerLedger handles veteran-volunteer hours, recognition, and reporting.
Give your veteran program the record it has earned.
Start a free 45-day trial, set up your Veteran area, and document every veteran volunteer and every hour your We Honor Veterans work earns. No credit card, no patient data.