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Making your opportunity Golden

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We’re here to help you use Golden the right way. Please read and follow these guidelines for making your opportunity Golden. If you have trouble or need help, drop us a line at support@goldenvolunteer.com.

An "open" (public audience) Golden Opportunity must:

  • Be open to anyone 13 years or older without a criminal record, without requiring specific skills
  • Allow for several volunteers to engage together
  • Be repeatable in the future or with some sort of regularity
  • Have an organization stakeholder who is able to rate each volunteer 1 - 5 stars after he or she completes a session
  • Note: private audience opportunities don't need to conform to the above guidelines

A Golden Opportunity should:

  • Relate to your organization’s clear mission or vision, so volunteers will identify with a sense of purpose
  • Be structured to offer inviting, creative, and achievable tasks for volunteers to perform, so they will recognize their contributions and be compelled to be productive
  • Provide some sort of social interaction and peer group that will encourage volunteers to identify with the act of volunteering beyond just completing the task at hand

Required information:

  • Be willing to accept Golden’s standard background check, and not perform a redundant screening process
  • Provide an emergency contact
  • List a specific location for each activity
  • Provide reasonable on-site supervision and insurance as applicable

Pro tips:

  • Imagine the most playful way to work toward your mission, and capture it in your Golden Opportunity
  • Find ways to encourage volunteers to invite their friends to participate
  • Tidiness, organization, and leadership inspire confidence and encourage retention over time

Golden Opportunities are:

  • effortless
  • genuine
  • inviting
  • playful
  • human
  • contributory
  • creative
  • aspirational

Golden Opportunities are not:

  • Burdensome
  • Hand-outs
  • Mundane
  • Tedious
  • Guilt-inducing
  • Self-righteous
  • Superficial
  • Pacifistic

The best images are:

  • Horizontal (6.4:3.6 aspect ratio)
  • Colorful but not overwhelming
  • Depict the context or activities of your organization

Here are two examples:

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