❖ Heads up! This article is intended for Amplify and Center Site Managers. Sustain does not have Volunteer Impact Pages or the Community Impact area.
You can set organizational goals—such as volunteer matches and hours—that display in chart form on your Volunteer Impact Pages (VIPs). If you prefer to keep this data internal, you can display it on your Site Manager dashboard instead.
You can also create Community Impact Areas, which are custom categories that highlight specific focus areas of volunteer activity (e.g., Education).
ℹ️ So you know: Some sites have language overrides in place. This means you might see Needs in place of Opportunities or Agencies in place of Programs.
Community Impact Goals Explained
Community Impact Goals help showcase how your volunteers contribute to the community. You can display this data as graphs on your Volunteer Impact Pages (VIPs) or on your Site Manager dashboard. This information is useful for board presentations, funding requests, or highlighting the impact of your volunteer community.
Adding Community Impact Goals
Click Settings from the top menu bar and select Community Impact.
Specify your goals. This includes Volunteer Matches and Volunteer Hours. Volunteer Matches are the number of responses your Opportunities receive from volunteers.
Set a date range for your goals.
Click Update Goals to finish!
Volunteer Impact Pages
When you set up a VIP, you can opt to display your Community Impact Goals with your community. To learn more, please see our article, Volunteer Impact Pages. Here's an example of what that might look like:
Site Manager Dashboard
If you don't want to share this information publicly but still want to capture the data for your records, you can add this chart to your Site Manager dashboard! Here's what that might look like:
✏️ Quick tip: You can add or edit items on your dashboard at any time. Just click the Edit button beside Dashboard to get started.
Adding Community Impact Goals to Site Manager Dashboard
You must be logged into your manager account to access this area.
Click the Edit button beside Dashboard.
Decide where you want it to appear on your dashboard—i.e., which row.
Click Add Content to Row.
Select Annual Impact Chart for the Content Type.
Click Submit Page to finish. You can also click Preview Dashboard to see it before you publish your changes. Don't like the way it looks? You can edit it, remove it, or add it to a different row on your dashboard.
Community Impact Areas
To highlight the impact areas your volunteers support through their participation, you can set up Community Impact Areas. Once added to your site:
Anyone creating a new Need or Opportunity must assign an Impact Area.
Volunteers can filter Needs or Opportunities by Impact Area to find ones that match their interests.
Adding a Community Impact Area
Click Settings from the top menu bar and select Community Impact.
Type the Impact Area title in the field beside the Add Area button.
Click Add Area to finish.
Managing Community Impact Areas
You can edit, disable, enable, or delete Community Impact Areas at any time.
To edit the impact area, click the pencil icon under the Options column. The page reloads with the impact area listed in the field where you add new areas. Make any necessary edits as applicable and click Update Area to save your changes.
To disable an impact area, click the (-) under the Options column. You can always enable the impact area again.
This removes it from the options when a manager creates a Need/Opportunity. This also displays the enable (+) and delete (X) options for that impact area when clicked.
To enable an impact area, click the (+) under the Options column.
To delete an impact area, click the (X) under the Options column.
Attributing an Impact Area to an Opportunity
If Impact Areas are enabled on your site, users must select one when creating a Need or Opportunity. The Impact Area field appears on the Create Need/Opportunity form, directly after the address and location fields.
