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: