Navigate to the Control Panel > People Tab > Website Modules > Volunteering.
Click Add Vol. Opp. to add a new Volunteering Opportunity.
If your button is greyed out, you need to add Volunteering and Slot categories. See Volunteering and Slot Categories
Remember, once you add an opportunity, you must add slots. See Understanding Volunteering Opportunities and Slots.
- Specify a title, description, and volunteering category for this opportunity.
- Start and Finish dates are optional. Some volunteering opportunities happen on a specific date or across a series of dates. Other opportunities might be open-ended (“Paint the Clubhouse”).
- Specify whether the opportunity is available to members only or also to non-members. If you place the Volunteering function on the public side of your website, this option determines whether a specific opportunity will be visible. Note that a similar option is available at the slot level so that some slots can be restricted to members only while others are available to non-members.
- Specify the Mailing List Category into which volunteers will be saved. This allows you to export their information or to send a blast email just to these volunteers.
- You can optionally link a volunteering opportunity to an event. If you click Yes, a drop-down field appears showing future events. See Volunteering for Events
- If your club or association tracks required hours, an option allows you to make this opportunity eligible to be counted.
- Choose whether the opportunity is visible to everyone or members only. Note this does not control who can sign up, only who can see the opportunity.
- Choose a status:
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Closed (not shown in the list)
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Published – Not Yet Open for signups
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Published – Open for signups
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Cancelled - If you're returning to an opportunity you scheduled and need to cancel it.
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- Specify a contact person, whether his or her email address and phone should be shown, and whether they are notified by email whenever someone signs up for a slot.
- Select if you would like to send up to three Automated Reminder Notifications to volunteers for this opportunity.
If the contact's email is not shown, the confirmation email sent to the volunteer(s) will replace ~~contact_email~~ with the email of the club's membership director.
Specify the general location for this opportunity. Click the Locations button to display and select from the list of standard locations. Or you can enter a completely different location. Note that individual slots can have a different location from the opportunity as a whole.
Click Save to save your changes and return to the Volunteering Administration screen to add slots.
Next, go to Adding Volunteering Slots.