Maintaining print and Internet listings of sponsors, sites, volunteers, and referral customers. Staffing the Volunteer Telephone Hotline. Coordinating the school partnership e-File training. Partnering with the IRS, the FTB's field offices, legislative staff, and program sponsors. The volunteer programs' sponsors are 800 strong statewide.
Sponsors are volunteer agencies, organizations, and individuals.
Sponsors recruit and coordinate volunteers, work with their communities to acquire sites where the volunteers can provide help, and obtain local advertising for the local sites. VITA sponsors vary in size from small sponsors with less than five volunteers to large sponsors, such as the California State University, Northridge, with more than 100 volunteers. VITA Military sponsors are normally the legal units on military installations and Navy vessels. HRA sponsors are similar to VITA sponsors but are smaller in size and have fewer volunteers. More than 8,000 individuals staff the volunteer program.