Plan a Single Opportunity
Goal: Create a one-time opportunity that's specific enough for volunteers to know what they're signing up for and structured enough that you can staff and run it cleanly.
Plan a Recurring Series
Goal: Stand up a repeating opportunity — a weekly build day, monthly orientation, biweekly Store donation pickup — without manually re-creating it each time.
Manage Registrations
Goal: Keep your roster accurate as people register, withdraw, request slot changes, or fill from the waitlist.
Communicate with Registrants
Goal: Keep your registered volunteers informed — confirmations, reminders, last-minute changes, and post-event thanks — without sending anything that doesn't need to go.
Coordinate Tasks on Event Day
Goal: Break the day's work into named tasks, assign them, and let volunteers see what they're responsible for or pick up something open.
Check Volunteers In and Out
Goal: Capture who actually showed up — and for how long — so when you close the opportunity, hours are accurate.
Close an Opportunity and Record Hours
Goal: Wrap up the opportunity, convert attendance into volunteer hours on each person's record, and credit any sweat equity to the right partner family.
Enter and Review Hours for an Opportunity
Goal: Record hours for a whole group at once after an event — even one that
Customize Registration Confirmations
Goal: Replace the standard registration confirmation email with your affiliate's own message — and use different messages for different kinds of opportunities.
Get Alerted When Volunteers Register
Goal: Make sure the right coordinator hears about every new sign-up — automatically, based on the kind of opportunity.
Link an Opportunity to a Project
Connecting a volunteer opportunity to a construction project keeps the two in sync: the opportunity appears on the project, and its volunteer hours roll up under the project in reporting (including the Volunteer Hours by Project report).