Your volunteer profile is a critical part of Volunteer Connect. At United Way we are always trying to expand our volunteer base, and get an accurate depiction of the impact our volunteers are having on the community. This blog post will cover how to manage your volunteer profile and how to utilize volunteer connect to the fullest.
Your profile menu is located in the top right-hand corner of your Connect screen. To view it, click on your initials or your profile picture if you've already uploaded one. This menu is only available for logged-in volunteers.
The profile menu may have the following selections, which appear as applicable (for example, the User Groups selection only appears if you belong to a user group):
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| View Profile |
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| Edit Profile | Select Edit Profile to edit your profile picture, basic information, password, and disaster settings. You can also opt-out of system emails or deactivate your account on this page. Click here to learn more about editing your profile. | |
| Edit disaster profile |
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| Track Hours |
Click this area to submit hours for volunteer work you've completed. You can also view your submitted hours on this page, as well as their statuses (pending, approved, denied, etc.). To learn more about logging hours, click here.
Note: You can use the table filter to add or hide table columns. |
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| Volunteer Schedule | View your scheduled volunteer opportunities. Only those opportunities associated with a particular date will appear in the calendar. To learn more about your volunteer schedule, click here. | |
| Qualifications | View or edit any pending qualifications questions you have answered, or any documents you have uploaded, to show that you're qualified to access or respond to certain needs. You can also view eSign waivers and other eSign documents that are available on your site. For more information about qualifications (other than waivers), click here. For more information about waiver qualifications in particular, click here. | |
| My Files |
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| Need Responses | This area shows all of your past need responses and any associated user groups. Use this area to edit your responses, add hours, re-visit the need posting, check into/out of a need, or view the agency profile page of the agency that posted the need. Expired (past) needs are shown in faded text. | |
| My Teams | If you're a team leader, the My Teams area is where you manage those teams. If you're a member of a team but not the leader, you can use this area to email your team leader directly. Team leaders can view this article to learn more about managing their team. |
| My User Groups |
Use this area to view your user groups. You can see what needs or opportunities have been assigned to your user group, generate a user group report, and leave a group from this page. Click here to learn more about user groups. To learn more about user group leaders, click here.
Note: You can use the table filter to add or hide table columns. |
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| SLM Hours Overview | (Service Learning sites only) This area shows a student's progress toward service-learning requirements. | |
| SLM Leader Portal |
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| Inbox | Select Inbox to view your in-app messages. In-app messages may include system notifications and mail blasts from your site's manager. You can also view your in-app messages by clicking the bell icon to the left of the profile menu. | |
| Logout |
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To use the table filter:
- Click Table Filter, located just above the far right-hand column of a table.
- Mark the boxes for the columns you wish to see and clear the boxes for the columns you wish to hide.
