Create a volunteering offer

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An offer is how you set up what your employees can give and where, and for what causes. Use it to:

Fill your employee marketplace with volunteering opportunities.
Invite non-profits to create opportunities that fit your needs.
Local Needs Assessment: build a report on volunteering and non-profit needs in a specific area, cause or skills.

You can create as many offers as you like. All matching opportunities will be visible to employees. A broad offer works well for your employee volunteering marketplace. Targeted offers are useful when there isn’t an existing opportunity for what you want to give.

1. Start a new offer

Log in to ActionFunder with your admin account.
Click Volunteering in the left-hand menu.
Open the Offers tab and click Create an offer.

Volunteering page on the Offers tab with the Create an offer button

2. Set your offer criteria

The Non-profits and Opportunities counts update as you change your criteria.

Volunteering offer criteria page showing the offer name field, non-profit and opportunity counts and a map

Choose your catchment

UK wide: any non-profit in the UK. Best for remote work.
Radius: enter a postcode and a distance. Click Add another postcode to cover more than one location, for example if you have offices in Manchester and London.
Local authority: pick one or more local authority areas.
Remote opportunities: choose whether to include all remote opportunities, or leave out remote opportunities from non-profits outside the area where you want to make an impact.
The map shows both non-profit and opportunity locations, including every location a non-profit operates from (if they’ve updated their profile).
Pink pins are opportunities that can be done remotely, but show where the non-profit is based.

Area shape dropdown showing Radius, Local authority and UK wide

Radius catchment set to 25 miles around a postcode, with matching non-profits shown on the map

Narrow by cause (optional)

Focus areas: the causes you want to back.
Who it helps: the beneficiaries of people you want to reach.
Each choice reduces the number of matching non-profits and opportunities. Leave these blank for the widest reach, especially for your employee marketplace.

Which causes do you want to support pop-up with focus areas to choose from

Set how volunteers can work

These settings filter opportunities only, not non-profits.

Choose Remote, On site or Either.
Tick Working hours only (Mon to Fri, 9 to 5) if volunteering must happen in office hours.
Skills (optional): leave this empty unless you want to offer specific skills. Picking skills narrows the opportunities your employees see.

How volunteers can work options: Remote, On site, Either, and a working hours checkbox

Which skills can your employees offer pop-up with skill categories

Download the full list

The map shows up to 110 results, with opportunities shown first.
Click Download your data for an Excel spreadsheet of every matching non-profit and opportunity.

Offer criteria page with the Download your data, Save draft and Next buttons

3. Save a draft (optional)

Click Save draft at any point. You’ll find it under Offers > Draft.
Drafts aren’t visible to anyone and nobody is notified.
Handy for a needs assessment: see which non-profits and opportunities sit within your criteria before you publish.
Click Continue editing to pick it up again.

Draft tab showing an offer marked Not visible to anyone yet, with a Continue editing button

4. Add your offer details

Click Next, then describe what you’re offering and what you hope it achieves (up to 2,500 characters).
Include the skills your people bring and the type of volunteering you’re interested in. More detail means better responses.
Tick Don’t email matching non-profits if you only want to fill your marketplace. Matching opportunities still reach your employees, but non-profits won’t be notified of your offer.

Offer details page with a description box and the Don't email matching non-profits checkbox

5. Finalise and publish

Check What publishing will do, then click Publish.
Matching opportunities appear in your employees’ marketplace once they sign in.
If you chose to email non-profits, they get a link to your offer and can create opportunities that match it.
Currently, you can’t edit an offer once it’s published. Email hello@actionfunder.org and we’ll make changes for you. Self-serve editing is coming soon.

Finalise page explaining what publishing will do, with a note that published offers can't be edited

6. View your live offer

After publishing you’ll see your offer page. This is what non-profits see.
Your offer now sits under Offers > Live, with the number of matching non-profits and opportunities.

Published offer page showing the offer description, skills, how they can work and location

Live tab showing a published offer that matches 2014 non-profits and 16 opportunities

7. What to expect from non-profits

If you chose to email matching non-profits, here’s what happens next.

Every non-profit that matches your criteria gets an email with a link to your offer.
They can create a new volunteering opportunity in response to it.
New opportunities appear under Browse > Opportunities and in your employees’ marketplace.
Allow up to two weeks for non-profits to respond.
The more detail you give in your offer, the easier it is for non-profits to create an opportunity that fits.
Not getting many responses? Email hello@actionfunder.org or your customer support contact and we’ll help promote your offer.

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