❖ Heads up! This article is only intended for Site Managers.
If local companies in your community offer Dollars for Doers programs, your site's Favorite Agency or Program feature can help track volunteers' hours and show which nonprofits would benefit.
ℹ️ So you know: Some sites have language overrides in place. You may see Needs in place of Opportunities, Agencies in place of Programs, or Prerequisites in place of Qualifications.
What is Dollars for Doers?
Dollars for Doers programs—also known as Volunteer Grants, Dollar for Hour, or Grants for Time—are designed to inspire employee volunteerism. Through these programs, companies donate to nonprofits or charities based on the time their employees spend volunteering. For example, a company might contribute $1 per volunteer hour—or as much as $25 or more per hour!
With your site, employees can easily discover volunteer Needs or Opportunities, log their hours, and help their companies provide grants to nonprofits based on those approved hours.
These programs not only encourage employees to give their time but also showcase a company’s commitment to social responsibility.
What is a Favorite Agency or Program?
Your site's users can select a "favorite Agency or Program," either during registration or by editing their user profile. Here's an example of how the Favorite Agency/Program field appears if activated in registration.
The Favorite Agency/Program field can be used for Dollars for Doers and similar programs. By selecting a favorite Agency/Program, a volunteer can indicate which nonprofit they'd like to support with their company's Dollars for Doers program. Volunteers can only select one favorite Agency/Program.
The term "Favorite" can be overridden by a different term as requested. For example, you can have "Favorite" changed to "Dollars for Doers" throughout your site so that the Favorite Agencies field reads Dollars for Doers Agency.
Hours By Favorite Agency/Program Report
The Hours by Favorite Agency/Program report was designed specifically for sites that run a Dollars for Doers type of program. It displays all volunteers with approved hours within a specified date range, along with each listed volunteer's favorite Agency/Program.
Hours shown are the total volunteered for that Agency or Program. For example, Blake Anderson (above) may have 50 volunteer hours for various Agencies/Programs, but this report only shows the 10 he worked for A Dog's Tail Animal Rescue.
As with all site reports, you can export this data by clicking the Export icon above the table.
Fanned Agencies
When a volunteer fans an Agency, they'll get notifications when that Agency has posted a new Need or event; fanning an Agency is a way of "following" them online.
The fanning Agencies feature is only available to Center sites.
When a volunteer selects a favorite Agency or Program, they're saying that they'd like for their volunteer hours to have a financial benefit via corporate grants for their selected nonprofit.
To prevent confusion, you may want to override "favorite agency" with a term that better reflects the program being used in your community—for instance, "Dollars for Doers agency," "Grants for Time agency," etc.