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We believe the people doing the most good in their communities deserve tools that help them do it better.
Since 2009, MyRouteOnline has been used by food banks, churches, synagogues, Meals on Wheels chapters, Boy Scout troops, Rotary clubs, schools, and nonprofit organizations across more than 120 countries. Not because we marketed to them but because they found us when they needed a better way to get help to the people who needed it.
Routes for Good is our formal commitment to that community. It means special pricing, hands-on support, and a genuine understanding of how volunteer-driven operations work, because we have spent years learning from the coordinators, chapter leaders, and community organizers who use our platform every day.
If you run an organization that serves others, this is for you.
Every verified nonprofit or community organization receives 50% more address credits, applied to your account on any plan you choose, at no extra cost. This is not a trial offer or a discount code. It is a standing commitment to organizations working with limited budgets.
Most volunteer operations don’t need routing software every day. They need it for their annual holiday gift drive, their weekly food bank run, their summer meal delivery program. Our Pay As You Go plans, from $24 for 50 credits, valid for 12 months. You pay for what you use and nothing more. No monthly subscription ticking over in the months you’re not active.
Once your routes are planned, getting them to your drivers takes seconds. Each volunteer receives their individual route by email, sent to as many drivers as you have. Every route can also be shared via a direct link that volunteers tap to open their navigation immediately, or via a scannable QR code that drivers scan with their phone camera. No app download required to receive a route. For volunteers who prefer paper, every route can be printed as a full map with turn-by-turn driving directions in text.
Volunteers who want guided turn-by-turn navigation use the free MyRoute app, available on both iPhone and Android. It works like any navigation app they already know, but it’s preloaded with their optimized route, stop by stop. Drivers mark each stop as complete as they go, which means you can follow progress in real time from the planning interface. The app is free to download and free to use for every volunteer. They don’t need their own MyRouteOnline account or subscription.
When you contact our support team as a Routes for Good member, you’re not explaining what a “volunteer coordinator” is. Our team has helped dozens of organizations exactly like yours, from synagogue committees managing Purim deliveries to Boy Scout troops running Christmas tree pickup drives. We understand that your drivers are unpaid volunteers, that your address lists change every year, and that the stakes of getting this right are higher than a missed delivery window.
Most routing software assumes professional drivers and consistent daily schedules. Volunteer operations don’t work that way. MyRouteOnline lets you save your annual campaign and reload it next year, updating only the addresses that changed. It lets you plan routes for dozens of volunteer teams simultaneously from a single address list. And it accommodates the full range of your volunteer pool, tech-savvy drivers navigating on their phones and paper-map drivers working from printouts, all in the same planning session.
Routes for Good is trusted by organizations across many types of community work:
Food banks, pantries, and meal delivery programs routing weekly and daily distribution runs to families and homebound seniors. Meals on Wheels chapters use MyRouteOnline to sequence daily volunteer driver routes, ensuring hot meals arrive within service windows.
Christmas gift drives, Easter hamper distributions, Purim basket deliveries, Thanksgiving meal programs, and other annual campaigns where dozens or hundreds of volunteer drivers need organized routes for a single high-pressure day.
Churches, synagogues, mosques, and other faith organizations coordinating community support programs, congregation care visits, and fundraising campaigns that rely on volunteer members as drivers.
Boy Scout troops, Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, and similar civic organizations running annual fundraiser pickups, donation drives, and community service deliveries.
PTAs, school committees, and university volunteer programs distributing supplies, books, food packages, or other materials through networks of parent and student volunteers.
Organizations routing carers, nurses, support workers, and volunteers to client visits across a city or region, where service time and reliable arrival windows matter for the people being served.
Every summer, when school is out and the weekly meal programs that feed food-insecure children stop running, Snack Pak 4 Kids deploys more than 40 volunteers to deliver 450 food packages to 151 addresses across San Antonio. Coordinator Jeff Campbell needed to create routes for 21 separate delivery teams and distribute individual maps and directions to each, many of whom had never done this before.
With MyRouteOnline, Jeff imported his address list from Excel, planned all 21 team routes from his computer, and sent each team their individual route by email. Volunteers who wanted guided navigation used the MyRoute app on their phones. Those who preferred paper had printed maps. Both worked. Everyone got where they needed to go.
Every year, Keren Mellander, routing chairperson for Temple Isaia’s Purim Project, faced the same challenge. Up to 15 stops per driver, a volunteer pool that changed from year to year, and hours of manual spreadsheet work before the holiday.
When she discovered MyRouteOnline, she contacted our support team with questions and received a response within an hour. The results: a 50% reduction in planning time. Every driver received their optimized route by email or via a shared link, no technical setup required on their end. When a route needed adjusting, she made the change and the system recalculated. When she accidentally deleted her routes, our support team patiently walked her through restoring them.
“MyRouteOnline’s customer service continued to impress. Every time I contacted the company with an issue, I received a prompt and helpful response.”
Temple Isaia’s Purim Project now runs on MyRouteOnline. So does next year’s.
Every Sunday, a team of volunteers in Plympton, England, delivers 150 hot lunches to vulnerable and elderly members of their community. Every meal is cooked by volunteers. Every delivery is made by volunteers. The entire operation runs on goodwill and one pressing question each week: how do we divide these 150 addresses across our available drivers so the food arrives hot?
They found MyRouteOnline. Now they import their weekly address list, tell the system how many volunteers are available that day, set a maximum journey time of 10 minutes per route so meals stay warm, and press one button. In seconds, every driver has their route. On Sunday mornings, volunteers arrive, their cars are loaded, and they navigate using the MyRoute app. When a route is finished, they return for another load.
If your organization is a registered nonprofit, a religious or faith community, a civic club, a school program, or a volunteer-based initiative, you qualify for the Routes for Good program.
Contact us with a brief description of your organization and how you plan to use MyRouteOnline. Our team will respond within one business day and apply your nonprofit credit to your account.
There is no lengthy approval process. There are no restrictions on plan type. The 50% extra credit applies to whichever plan works best for your organization’s size and usage.
No. While registered nonprofits automatically qualify, we extend the Routes for Good program to a broader community, faith organizations, civic clubs, volunteer-led community groups, and school programs are all welcome, regardless of formal registration status. If your organization serves others and operates on a limited or volunteer-run budget, contact us and we will work something out.
For most seasonal organizations, the Pay As You Go option is a better fit than a monthly subscription. A one-time purchase of credits is valid for 12 months, so you can plan your annual campaign whenever it runs without paying monthly fees in the intervening period. The $24 Basic pack covers 50 addresses. Larger packs are available for bigger campaigns.
Each volunteer receives their individual route by email, one message per driver, all sent at once from the planner. Routes can also be shared via a direct link that volunteers tap to open their navigation immediately, or via a QR code they scan with their phone camera. For volunteers who prefer paper, every route prints as a full map with step-by-step driving directions.
No. The MyRoute app is free to download and free to use for every volunteer on iOS and Android. Volunteers do not need their own MyRouteOnline account or subscription, they simply receive their route and navigate. The app provides turn-by-turn guidance and lets drivers mark each stop as complete so you can monitor progress in real time.
Yes. Routes are saved to your account and can be reloaded at any time. For recurring annual campaigns, you reload last year’s route structure and update only the addresses that have changed, saving significant preparation time each year.
You can reassign their stops to another driver’s route in under two minutes. The affected routes recalculate automatically. No need to rebuild from scratch.
Yes. Upload your full address list, specify how many volunteer teams you have, and MyRouteOnline divides and optimizes all routes simultaneously, balanced by number of stops or maximum driving time. Every team gets their own route in a single planning session.