There are two types of volunteering opportunity. The label on each card tells you which one it is.
- Assignment: a piece of ongoing work you deliver, or a role. These tend to be skilled volunteering opportunities.
- Ongoing or One-time: an event on a set date and time. These are usually non-skilled.
Assignments
For example, building a website or planning a social media calendar.
- You work to your own schedule, often over a longer period, sometimes with a finish-by date.
- There are no sessions to pick. You suggest the hours you can give when you apply and agree them with the organiser.
- Log time against the assignment as you go.
- When the work is done, mark it complete yourself.
- Then complete the impact survey.
Event-based opportunities
For example, clearing a garden on a Saturday morning.
- Events run on a set date and time. Ongoing events offer several sessions to pick from, but you sign up for a single date. For example, a community garden looking for volunteers every Thursday: you sign up for the Thursday that works for you, and if you want to come again you sign up again.
- Choose a session and click Request [date]. Cards show how many spaces are left.
- Once approved and the date has passed, the event is marked complete automatically.
- You and the non-profit are then sent an impact survey.
