Recent Updates
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Rules governing team creation on the public site
<p>The "Create a Team" form on the public site is very flexible and forgiving. It was built to allow a variety of scenarios that might exist when creating a team.</p> <p>Ideally people will fill in all the fields, but if they don't messages advise you on fields that must be filled in before cre... -
(Optional) Occurrence Names and Descriptions
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(Advanced Feature) How to add names and descriptions to individual occurrences
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Skilled Volunteer Search
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Both Volunteers and Volunteer Opportunities have skill ratings associated with them
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Self-Reported Volunteer Opportunities for organizations not already in your database (new, potential partners)
<p>When a volunteer self-reports an opportunity on the public site, for an organization that is not an 'active partner' of your organization -- it creates a self-reported volunteer connection, and triggers an email to be sent to the contact they designate with that organization - encouraging them... -
Self-Reported Volunteer Opportunities & Occurrences for your existing organizations
When a volunteer self-reports a new opportunity with one of your existing partners, a new connection record is created.
The Primary Contact for your partner organization receives an email alerting them that a volunteer has 'submitted hours for verification'. -
How volunteers can join the waitlist for occurrences that have no space remaining
Each occurrence of a volunteer opportunity has a maximum number of sign-ups that are allowed, as defined in the occurrence record.
When an occurrence reaches capacity, volunteers are given the option of adding themselves to a wait list for that opportunity.
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Multilingual Volunteer Opportunities (in Salesforce)
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How to associate a Volunteer Opportunity with a Volunteer Event
While you could create a volunteer opportunity for an event from its related list, this is the hard way. Instead use the volunteer opportunity wizard to create a volunteer opportunity that will take place during your event, and THEN associate it with the event.