Understanding Volunteer Efforts

After you create an initiative or define a membership organization, you can create the volunteer structure necessary for the effort to succeed. You then assign volunteers to the positions within the volunteer structure and assign additional volunteers to perform specific tasks. Volunteer efforts are associated with both volunteer initiatives and member organizations, and are set up as initiatives. Although all initiatives in Contributor Relations share some common setup pages, a volunteer effort has its own audience, resources, related initiatives, and PR plan. Some initiatives, such as volunteer efforts, require additional setup that is specific to their purpose. The volunteer-specific setup is covered in this topic; overview information for all types of initiatives is discussed elsewhere.