Adding Causes, Skills, and Keywords

• Adding cause areas, skills information about the kind of volunteers that can participate, and keywords to your volunteer opportunity helps volunteers filter their search and helps you recruit the right people. 

  
  

  This article covers: 

  • Adding cause areas
  • Indicating the kind of volunteers that can participate
  • Adding skills
  • Adding keywords

  Go to the Edit Opportunity flow's Filters section to add causes, skills, or keywords to your opportunity.

• What kind of volunteers can participate?

 Use the check boxes to indicate if your opportunity is right for kids, teens, those over 55 years of age, groups or private groups.  If you indicate that your opportunity is appropriate for groups, you can select the group size.

Causes

Volunteers often search based on their interests, so make sure to take advantage of the Cause Areas feature. Add up to three from our list of 29 popular Cause Areas by selecting them from the left-hand menu.

Skills

Many volunteers seek opportunities to develop or utilize skills for personal or professional goals. If your opportunity involves or requires certain skills, search our library of over 300 skills or add your own.

To reach a broader audience of skilled volunteers, connect your VolunteerMatch profile to LinkedIn! 

Keywords

Often volunteers search for opportunities using keywords so the more relevant keywords you use, the better!

Try using synonyms for important terms in your description and use quotes to group words in a phrase.

For example, for a tutoring opportunity, include keywords like:

• • Teaching
  • Kids
  • "Math Tutor"