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# Learn About Volunteers for Salesforce

Understand how Volunteers for Salesforce helps your organization manage volunteer activities, and learn about the supporting data model.

- **[Why it Matters](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.v4s_user_intro_why_it_matters.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Volunteers are critical to many nonprofits. Volunteers for Salesforce gives you a way to manage your relationships with them.
- **[Volunteers for Salesforce and Your Salesforce Instance](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.v4s_user_intro_salesforce.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Volunteers for Salesforce uses some standard Salesforce objects—Contacts and Campaigns—to manage volunteers. Volunteers for Salesforce also introduces custom objects into your Salesforce org.
- **[Volunteers for Salesforce Entity Relationship Diagram](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.v4s_erd.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    This diagram shows the relationship between Volunteers for Salesforce Custom Objects and Salesforce Standard Objects.
- **[Volunteers for Salesforce Objects and Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.v4s_data_dictionary.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Learn what custom objects and fields are included in Volunteers for Salesforce. This is a useful resource for developers and admins to explore and understand the Volunteers for Salesforce data schema in depth.