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Signature Events

Golden's Signature Events feature empowers organizers to effortlessly create large-scale events with multiple roles. Easily define roles, set up flexible shift schedules, and streamline volunteer management for smoother operations and impactful community events.

With this feature, organizers can create events with multiple roles, each with its own set of responsibilities and requirements. Whether you need greeters, registration assistants, event coordinators, or cleanup crews, you can easily define and assign roles to volunteers based on their skills and availability. Organizers can also set up flexible shift schedules, allowing volunteers to sign up for specific time slots that suit their availability. Volunteers can choose their preferred roles and shifts, ensuring that every aspect of the event is adequately covered.

ONE: Creating Your Signature Event Page

To begin creating your Signature Event, follow the steps below.

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Create a Signature Event

Type in your Signature Event Name and select the type of Roles that are involved. You can choose to have:

  • Local and Virtual Opportunities
  • Local Opportunities only, or
  • Virtual Opportunities only

Optional: Include any Waivers you require from all volunteers participating in your Signature Event.

Optional: Select the Participant Information you wish to collect from participants such as Phone Number, T-Shirt Size, Unisex Shirt Size, and Company Affiliation. Fields collected are applied to all Roles in your Signature Event.

Click Next

In the next window, enter the following:

  • Point of Contact Name
  • Point of Contact Number, and
  • Role Description

You will also choose the Privacy level for the role:

  • Open: Available to the public
  • Private-Open: Discoverable by logged-in Participants in the target Audience(s)
  • Private-Closed: Discoverability and sign-ups restricted to logged-in Participants in the target Audience(s)
  • Private-Unlisted: Sign-ups restricted to logged-in Participants in the target Audience(s)

Click Next

Write in the Purpose of the event.

Optional: Write in a few words to describe the Vibe.

Optional: Include one or more Tags to help volunteers search for your Signature Event. If someone searches for any of these terms, your Signature Event will be easily accessible.

Click Next

In this example, we opted to only use a Physical Location. In this window, enter the address of where your event will take place.

Optional: Include any Additional Address Info, such as a building name, floor or Suite, etc.

Click Next

In the following window you can set the Maximum # of Participants for your entire Signature Event. You can also set the Schedule (date, start and end time) and Frequency.

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We know that Signature Events are different for every organization. Some are yearly, multi-day, quarterly, etc. Select the Frequency of the Signature Event at the end of the window. You can choose from various options such as:

  • Single occurrence, does not repeat
  • Daily
  • Weekly on Monday
  • Monthly
  • Annually
  • Every 2 hours
  • Custom recurrence

Click Next

In the final step, you can select up to three Images to represent your Signature Event. Note that for each Role you create, you will have the option to swap the images for new ones that represent the Role more adequately. For tips, see our image guidelines.

Click Create Signature Event

You have now created your Signature Event Page!

TWO: Creating Your Roles

To begin creating your Roles, click Create Role and begin creating your roles.

Creating Roles is just as easy as creating opportunities with our Opportunity Wizard.

Many of the items will be pre-populated from the main Signature Event to help streamline and standardize language. To facilitate the creation of each of your nuanced Roles, Golden allows you to edit the following sections to fit the specific role you're creating.

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  • Role Name
  • Role Description
  • Privacy
  • Details
  • Vibe
  • Tags
  • Physical Location
  • Point of Contact Name
  • Point of Contact Number
  • Disable Auto Check-Ins
  • Maximum # of Participants
  • Schedule
  • Date
  • Frequency
  • Post-Registration Instructions
  • Waivers
  • Eligibility and Conditions
  • Background Checks
  • Additional Questions and Document Collection
  • Role Manager
  • Images

When you complete a Role, you'll be taken to the main Signature Event page where you can keep creating all the Roles required for your Signature Event. As you continue to create them, they will populate in the main Signature Event page.

THREE: Promoting Your Event

Once you're done, you can Promote your event by going to the top right corner of the page to generate a list and calendar share-link.