Managing your Categories

Now that you have created your event and added opportunities to it, you can attach categories to your opportunities. 

Attaching a category to your opportunity will help your employees filter and select the right opportunity for them. 

1.Creating a category 

Start at the 

•  "Volunteering Events" homepage. The page should look similar to the first image below. Scroll to the right and click on "More", as seen in the second image. 

• Click on "Categories". The following image will appear 

• Click on "Add Category" at the top of the page and you will see a new row appear> Write the name of your category e.g Children, Animal, Pro Bono, Skilled, The Great outdoors. Make sure you save after each new category.  

• After you have added all the categories the page will look similar to the image below 

• Save it 

• Note: Just because you have created categories does not mean they are automatically attached to opportunities. Follow the below instructions to attach at category to an opportunity. 

2.Using a category 

You have created a few categories and want to attach them to your opportunities. 

• In your "Volunteering Events" homepage screen, click on "Opportunities"

• After you have clicked on your Opportunities screen, you will see a "Category" field under which you can select one of the categories you have created. See image below 

• Select the category in which best describes your opportunity through the drop down menu 

• Your employees will now be able to easily find this opportunity by filtering your volunteering marketplace by category