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Participants

The people who did the work, and what they say they contributed.

Staff can record who showed up and for how long, but Participants adds the other half of the record: each person's own account of their own participation. The two sides — recorded and attested — sit side by side, and where they disagree, that disagreement is visible rather than quietly resolved by whoever has more access.

What it tracks​

  • Staff-recorded hours per person per event, alongside that person's own self-attested hours for the same event
  • Attendance and authorship — whether the person was there, and whether they organized it
  • Capacity or role at the event, and any language support provided
  • Three ways to attest: inside the app, through a one-time tokenized email link for people without an account, or as part of RSVP confirmation before the event

What it reports​

  • Total participations, confirmations, and hours by zone and by category
  • Confirmation rate — how much of what staff recorded has actually been confirmed by the person it's about
  • Attested vs. recorded hours, the reconciliation surface, with any disagreement shown as a difference rather than papered over
  • Two measures published to Goals & Measures: total attested hours and attestation rate

Who uses it​

Staff record participations as work happens. Each participant confirms their own hours from Mine, a tab that shows only their own history — nobody attests on someone else's behalf, because a person's account of their own work is the record no one else can give. Zone coordinators see confirmation activity within their zone; the organization-wide view is for leadership.

Why it matters​

Grant reporting, annual reports, and board accountability all depend on documented participant hours. Without a system of record, that documentation lives in sign-in sheets and spreadsheets that nobody reconciles against what actually happened. Participants makes the record self-reported and auditable — and when a recorded hour and an attested hour disagree, the disagreement itself becomes visible instead of disappearing into whichever number got typed in last.