If you leverage Benevity's volunteer catalog, you can curate your own program catalog of opportunities for your people to browse and coordinate volunteering. Which people can do this depends on your program.
Opportunities may be volunteer-hosted or nonprofit-hosted. A volunteer-hosted opportunity is hosted by a volunteer at your company, and they do not need to contact the nonprofit. In the volunteering catalog, you can find volunteer-hosted opportunities by checking the Hosted by filter.
Permissions
Anyone with permissions to create volunteering events from your program catalog can run a volunteer-hosted event.
Creating an event and adding shifts
Coordinators of a volunteer-hosted opportunity should have everything they need to get started and create an event.
If your program customizes events:
- Select Create Event.
- Customize the event details, including adding shifts. If you need to leave the event page, you can access your draft by navigating to your profile and selecting My Opportunities.
- Once you've completed the event details, Submit to publish it.
If your program does not customize events:
- Select Add Shift at the bottom of the page. This creates an event for you, and directs you to the Shift page to add shift details:
- Shift name: Provide a descriptive name for the shift.
- Maximum number of volunteers: Set a limit for how many people can sign up.
- Start and end dates: Include the relevant dates.
- Time zone: Select the appropriate time zone for the event.
- Volunteering time for the shift: Enter a time if you only need volunteers for a portion of the shift.
- Enable automatic time tracking if you want volunteer time to be automatically tracked for this event.
- Select Add Shift to add as many additional shifts as you need.
- Select Save Shifts to save your shifts.
Once shifts are added, your event will be visible to all employees to sign up for.
Sharing your volunteering event
Once your event is published, you can share it with your team or others to encourage sign-ups and fill available spots.