Course: Introducing Volunteer Catalog
Explore how the Volunteering Catalog can help you scale your program with vetted, high-impact opportunities that are ready to launch.
⏰ 10 minutes
Leveraging Benevity's Volunteering Catalog, you can enhance your company's volunteering program by curating your own program catalog based on Benevity's sourced opportunities.
Your program catalog is visible to permitted users when they log in and go to Volunteer > Coordinate Volunteering. These users can create events based on these opportunities for a specific date and time.
Permissions
Anyone with the following user roles can add volunteer opportunities to the program catalog:
- Volunteer Manager
- Volunteer Manager (No Reporting)
- Volunteer Manager (Junior Admin)
Browsing the Volunteering Catalog
To browse Benevity's Volunteering Catalog, go to Manage, followed by Volunteer > Volunteering Catalog. Select an opportunity title to learn more about it, such as:
- The name of the nonprofit the opportunity supports.
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Hosted by shows how the opportunity is hosted:
- Nonprofit-hosted: These opportunities require your people to contact the nonprofit to confirm a date and time for the event.
- Volunteer-hosted: These opportunities are coordinated and run by your people and do not require them to contact the nonprofit. They have all they need to get started.
- Volunteers needed indicates how many people can participate in the opportunity. This makes it easier to match opportunities to individuals or teams who want to volunteer together.
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Location type indicates whether the opportunity is:
- In-person: Volunteer opportunities that happen at a physical location.
- Virtual: Opportunities that can be done remotely from any location.
- Location is the country and city where the opportunity is hosted.
- Frequency indicates how often you can take part.
- Costs indicated associated costs to organize an event, if any.
It also includes more details like the impact and goals of the nonprofit organization and a description of the main tasks involved in the opportunity.
From the Volunteering Catalog, you can choose filters and Apply to find opportunities to add to your program catalog:
- Opportunity Title: This gives you the ability to find keywords in the opportunity title. It is not case sensitive.
- City
- Country
- Program catalog status
- Location type
- Volunteers needed
- Hosted by
- Impact areas: Benevity created tags so you can discover opportunities tied to specific themes, such as animals, environment or education. Impact areas help you find volunteering aligned with your company's values and the interest areas of your employees.
- Awareness day: Benevity created tags so you can discover opportunities tied to specific days of action or dates.
- Cost
Adding opportunities to your catalog
To add an opportunity to your program catalog:
- Open the opportunity from the Volunteering Catalog.
- Select Add Opportunity on the right-hand side of the opportunity page.
To add up to 20 opportunities to your program catalog:
- Choose the opportunities to act on:
- Select all: Select the checkbox in the top-left corner of the table header to select the first 20 displayed opportunities.
- Select individually: Select the checkbox next to each opportunity, up to a maximum of 20.
- Select Bulk Actions above the table.
- From the dropdown menu, select Add to catalog.
Eligible added opportunities become available in your program catalog for your people to coordinate events. If any are not eligible, they will not be added, and you will see an error with a list of opportunities. Select the opportunity title to learn more about eligibility.
Your program catalog is visible to permitted users when they log in and go to Volunteer > Coordinate Volunteering.
Tracking changes to the program catalog
The added opportunities are tracked in your Program Catalog History, displayed at the bottom of the Volunteer Catalog page. If five or more are added at once, they are grouped as a single entry. Fewer than five are listed individually.