Tagged
How to
Finding your fitSave a volunteer search and stop checking backSet the filters once, name the search, choose Daily or Weekly. New matches come to you by email. What it sends, when it sends, and the one thing it never sends.
Getting it postedStop retyping the same listingThe coat drive gets written once and typed four times. Three tools take that work back: build the listing from the flyer you already made, forward the email you already sent, and let the promotion page write the posts.
Finding your fitHow to search volunteer listings by town, ZIP and distanceClinton County is sixty miles end to end. The filter panel has a collapsed Distance section that takes your town and your mileage and hides the rest, with a couple of edges worth knowing.
Getting set upYour organization is already listed. Here is how to take the page overAn old phone number, a description nobody there wrote, and no way in. Claiming asks for your name, your email and a sentence about who you are, then a person reads it.
Finding your fitThe search box inside the filter panel that nobody noticesThe opportunities page carries eleven sections of filters. There is a small box at the top of them that finds the one you want when you type a word like outside, court or saturday.
Small nonprofitsPut this week's real ask at the top of your organization pageThree people to unload a truck Saturday is too small for a posting and too useful to leave unsaid. Here is the one-line spot for it, and how it takes itself back down.
How toPut your volunteer commitments on the calendar you already checkOne private link feeds everything you have marked Going into Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar. Where to find it, why you only get to copy it once, and what it will not do.
Getting the word outThe promotion kit that comes with every published listingCaptions you can paste, share images sized for feeds and stories, a printable QR flyer, and reusable QR codes you can re-point without reprinting. All on one page per listing.
How toHow to print a listing as a flyer for the bulletin boardEvery listing has a print page behind it: a letter-size sheet, a details box, and a QR code that still works after somebody photographs the paper. Here is where the link is, and where it is not.