The Opportunity Submissions feature allows nonprofits, companies, schools, and community organizations to submit volunteer opportunities directly into your Goodworld platform through a guided workflow — without giving external partners unrestricted backend access.

This feature is ideal for large volunteer programs like Days of Caring, corporate volunteer activations, seasonal campaigns, or any initiative where outside organizations need to propose volunteer opportunities for approval.

At a high level, Opportunity Submissions create a controlled intake process for volunteer opportunities.

Instead of manually creating every opportunity yourself — or granting partners full manager permissions — admins can provide a guided submission portal where external organizations can:

Admins retain full control over what gets published live.

The Opportunity Submission flow is designed to feel seamless for submitters while still giving admins structured oversight.

When a submitter enters the portal, the platform first checks whether they already have an account.

This prevents duplicate onboarding and creates a smoother experience for returning partners.

Submitters are connected to an organization during the process.

This allows opportunities to remain associated with the correct nonprofit, school, company, or community group while keeping organizational management structured behind the scenes.

Submitters are guided through a structured volunteer opportunity creation process.

Admins control which settings are fixed and which settings submitters are allowed to customize.

Examples include:

For example, a Days of Caring administrator may:

This creates consistency across programs without making the process overly rigid.

Not every volunteer opportunity has a finalized physical address at the time of submission.

To accommodate this, admins can enable custom location labels instead of requiring a Google Maps address.

For example:

This is especially useful for corporate volunteer events taking place at employer offices or rotating sites.

Opportunity Submissions include a powerful tagging system that allows admins to standardize reporting and filtering across volunteer opportunities.

During the submission process, admins can ask submitters to categorize opportunities using tags such as:

These tags:

Admins can create tags like:

Because tags remain backend-facing, admins can use them operationally without exposing unnecessary complexity to volunteers.

Submitters can assign a support contact for their opportunity.

This person receives replies to automated volunteer communications, including:

This keeps admin teams from acting as intermediaries for every organization-specific communication.

Submitted opportunities appear in a dedicated Submissions tab inside the Opportunities area of the platform.

Admins can:

This creates an important safeguard when allowing external organizations to submit opportunities directly into your platform.

The submissions view also provides historical visibility into what has been submitted over time.

Once someone submits through the Opportunity Submission flow, Goodworld can automatically assign them a role.

Admins decide how much access submitters receive.

Examples include:

This allows organizations to participate in the process without requiring manual permission assignment from admins.

Opportunity Submissions support sub-template functionality for programs where many organizations are hosting variations of the same event.

Admins can create a master template containing:

Each submitted opportunity inherits those settings while still allowing submitters to customize approved fields.

This is especially useful for:

Opportunity Submissions are enabled through a parent opportunity or campaign setup.

Once enabled:

The flow can then be embedded into:

The Opportunity Submission feature is actively evolving.

Custom registration questions are still being architected.

This includes:

Because of the complexity involved, this functionality is still in development.

Shift creation within the submission flow is not currently available.

Organizations can submit opportunities, but multi-shift setup is still handled separately.

This functionality is on the roadmap.

Currently, tags and groups must be created before configuring the submission flow.

Admins cannot yet create new tags directly during flow configuration, though this enhancement is planned for a future release.

Set strong defaults in your master template so submitters only need to customize the information that truly varies.

Use backend tags for reporting, filtering, and staff workflows rather than public-facing volunteer messaging.

Approval workflows provide an important quality control layer when accepting opportunities from external organizations.

Most organizations only need minimal access. Start with restricted permissions and expand only if needed.

Some organizations may still benefit from onboarding separately before gaining access to the submission process.

Opportunity Submissions are especially effective for:

If you have questions about Opportunity Submissions, schedule a support call with our success team.