Updating your opportunity's expiration date

Your opportunities are set to expire a maximum of 90 days after they’re published. Think you might forget? Don’t worry! We’ll send you an email when your opportunities’ expiration dates are nearing! 

Expired opportunities will no longer appear in search results for prospective volunteers but will remain in your opportunity table. You’ll be able to edit or reactivate them at your convenience!

Instructions on updating your opportunity's expiration date will differ based on the opportunity type. Choose from either of the following to access the relevant steps: 

• Ongoing Opportunities
• Opportunities with Specific Dates

Ongoing Opportunities

If you marked your opportunities as ‘Ongoing,’ they will be automatically set to expire 90 days after they’re posted. You can change the expiration dates for these opportunities directly from your dashboard! Simply follow these steps:

1. Check the box next to the opportunities you’d like to edit
   
   
2. Select ‘Change Expiration’ from the drop-down menu in the upper left corner of your opportunity table
   
   
3. Enter the new expiration date in the space provided and select save
   
   

You can also edit an opportunity’s expiration date from the opportunity details page using these instructions:

1. From your organization dashboard, select the pencil icon () to the right of the opportunity you’d like to edit
2. Scroll down to the Recruitment tab and select the pencil icon to input a new expiration date in the field provided
   
   
3. Select the checkmark to save your changes
   
   

Ongoing opportunities can be extended for up to 90 days at a time.

Opportunities with Specific Dates

If your opportunity takes place on a specific date or date range, it will expire on the last day of the opportunity. To edit the expiration date, you’ll need to edit the date of the opportunity.

To do so, follow the steps below:

1. From your organization dashboard, select the pencil icon () to the right of the opportunity you’d like to edit
2. Select ‘Edit Opportunity’
   
   
3. Scroll down and select a new date or date range; you can also select ‘Ongoing,’ which will set the expiration date 90 days after your opportunity is posted
   
   
4. Select ‘Save’
   
   

If you’ve filled your volunteer needs but don’t want to permanently delete your opportunity, you can change the expiration date to a date in the past using the instructions above. This will make your opportunity inactive, so it no longer appears to prospective volunteers but remains in your opportunity table.