Interests are a great tool for helping volunteers match with Needs that interest them or align with their skills. When you create a Need, you need to associate an Interest with it. This makes it easier for volunteers to find those Needs when filtering and searching by Interest.

You must select an Interest to associate with your Need when creating one. You can always update which Interests you want associated with your Needs.

Want to remove an Interest or add another? You can!

1. Go to My Agency > Needs.

2. Select the Need you want to update.

3. Scroll to Interests & Abilities on the Edit Need page.

4. Now you can:

Add more Interests with the dropdown menu.

Remove Interests by clicking the X beside them.

Star which Interest you want as the primary Interest for that Need. That determines which Interest's icon appears in the volunteer view of the Needs page.

5. Be sure to click Update Need when you're done to save your changes.

✅ Best practice: If you make other changes to the volunteer Need when updating the Interests, it's a good idea to check the box beside Notify Respondents of this update?—especially if the Need has volunteer responses.

Every site has a set of default Interests. However, the site manager can add custom Interests as well. Please note that you may not see these Interests as an option if the Site Manager has added or removed any from the default list.