Ready to get started on your volunteer journey? Here's a simple roadmap illustrating how you can start making a difference today! 
Step 1: Create you account.
- Be sure to complete all account registration steps.
- Miss a step during registration? No problem! You can always update your profile from the Edit Profile area!
- Complete any and all required qualifications and waivers so you can be prepared to volunteer.
- Select some Causes and Interests to help the site match you to agencies and Needs.
Step 2: Find the volunteer Needs that interest you!
- Once you've found a Need, respond to it!
- Responding to volunteer Needs is your way of letting the agency or site manager know you're interested in participating.
- Selected a shift for the Need? Great! When you respond to a Need with a shift and select that shift, you're letting the agency or site manager know you plan to attend and participate for that scheduled shift.
Step 3: Volunteer!
- The big day has arrived! You've completed all of the registration steps and qualification or waiver requirements and you're ready to volunteer.
- When you're done, be sure to log your hours!
- At some volunteer Needs, you may check in and out at a Check-In Kiosk.
- While the kiosk captures your hours for that Need, it's still a good idea to always visit the Track Hours area to review your contributions!
- At some volunteer Needs, you may check in and out at a Check-In Kiosk.
Step 4: Review your awesome volunteer resume!
- Your volunteer resume keeps track of your volunteer impact.
- You can share your awesome contributions with friends, family, co-workers, when applying for jobs, or for academic purposes!
- If a site has enabled benchmarks, then you can also earn badges when you hit certain volunteer hour mile markers.
- These badges appear on your profile and in your volunteer resume if they're enabled for the site.