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• Recurring events:

  We're continuously enhancing our product to make it as efficient as possible for you. In this release, we've enhanced our recurring events functionality to save you time in editing events. Now you can edit a series of events or "recurring events" with one click.

  When editing a recurring event, you may edit any part of the event (location, date/time, description, friends & family etc.) and simply click "Save" at the bottom of the screen. The option to edit the single occurrence or the entire series will appear.

  

Don't know when it's best to use recurring events?
Here are some great examples we've seen across our client base:

• Daily Events - Daily events easily meet many of your unique needs. You can include the "just weekdays" option to make sure your events don't span over the weekend and you can even indicate a daily pattern and set it to any day you wish. Many of our clients use these daily events to power their week long volunteer initiatives during National Volunteer Week, Week of Caring, or a signature company week. Note: If your event happens for every day for more than 1 week, it is best to create a Flexible Opportunity instead.
• Weekly Events - Weekly events are designed for fairly regular volunteer activities. Just like the daily events, you can customize them with a variety of options such as indicating the specific day(s) you'd like it to occur on and how often you'd like it to happen (Example: each Mondays and Fridays of every two weeks). Great examples we've seen: Meals on Wheels events that happen every two weeks on Fridays, recurring tutoring events that happen after school every Tuesday, or even volunteer opportunities that take more than one occurrence to get the job done, such as a Habitat for Humanity house that your company has committed to finishing).
• Monthly Events - Monthly events give you the option of indicating the specific day or date you'd like your events to occur. (Do you want it to occur on the 9th of every month or the last Friday of every third month?) More client examples: Junior Achievement events that happen every month for three months or disaster prep trainings that happen every month.
• Annual Events - Many of our clients like to set annual events in the system so volunteers can plan ahead. Does your company have annual signature volunteer days or any events such as a walk-a-thon or races that happens only once a year?
• Intra-Day events - These are events that happen over one day and are helpful when you need to schedule shifts for your volunteer event. Great examples of these are blood drives, fundraising walks such as AIDS or Cancer walks, or any event where you need a certain number of volunteers to cover different shifts over the course of the day.