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Manage General Interests

Add, Edit, View, Copy or Delete General Interests

Updated over a month ago

General Interests can be used to advertise your volunteer opportunities to potential volunteers on your public facing pages. You can also use general interests to track what type of work a volunteer is interested in by including them on your application form.


To manage your General Interests, go to: Configuration, then click on General Interests found in the sidebar under Recruitment.

Add New General Interest

  1. Click the [+] button in the “General Interests” header bar or click the [+ New General Interest] button at the bottom of the page.

  2. Enter a General Interest name (maximum 100 characters)

  3. Select whether or not the General Interest is Active (i.e. will be visible to volunteers and seen on the organization’s public search page)

  4. Select the applicable Application Form. If prospective applicants are looking at your list of active General Interests via a signup link, they can be directed to fill in a specific application form (1, 2 or 3). If you are just getting started, you may want to leave this as Default for now.

  5. Select your Visibility options:

    • MyImpactPage: The volunteer’s profile page, enabling volunteers to check what their interests are after they have filled in the application form

    • Public Page: visible to potential applicants to give them an idea of the type of opportunities you offer

    • Application Forms: The application forms on which this General Interest will appear

  6. Optional: Enter a Description (visible to volunteers)

  7. Optional: Select the Schedule Classifications associated with the General Interest (Additional Classifications may be available on Enterprise accounts)

  8. Click the [Save] button

Edit General Interest

Edit One General Interest

  1. Mouse over the Options icon beside the General Interest

  2. Click on “Edit”

  3. Make the desired change(s)

  4. Click the [Save] button

Edit Multiple General Interests

  1. Check the box beside each General Interest you want to change (you can also check the “Select All” box at the bottom)

  2. Scroll to the bottom and select what you would like to change from the drop list:

    • Set to Active: Make the General Interest visible based on display settings

    • Set to Inactive: Hide General Interest from volunteers and applicants

    • Update Display Settings: (MyImpactPage.com, Public Page, Application Forms)

    • Change Application Form: Enable the signup link to direct volunteers to a specific application

  3. Check the box to confirm your changes

  4. Click the green [Set to…], [Update…] or [Change…] button at the bottom right to save.

View General Interest

  1. Mouse over the Options icon beside the General Interest

  2. Click on “View”

Tip: By default, General Interests will appear in alphabetical order. You can change their display order by dragging and dropping them, using the green arrow button on the right, to the desired position in the list.

Copy General Interest

  1. Mouse over the Options icon beside the General Interest

  2. Click on “Copy”

  3. Enter a name for the new (copied) General Interest

  4. Click the [Copy General Interest] button

Delete General Interests

  1. Mouse over the Options icon beside the General Interest

  2. Click on “Delete”

  3. Click the [Delete] button to confirm

Note: If there are profiles with data for the General Interest you’d like to delete, you’ll be told how many profiles would be affected. If you proceed with deleting the field, all associated data will be permanently deleted.

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