Register your organization
An organization is what volunteers browse, and every opportunity belongs to one. You need an account before you can register one, and the account you register from becomes the organization owner.
The four steps
Registration is a wizard, and you can move back and forth between steps before you submit.
- Identity & Legal. Organization name, tax status, nonprofit type, an EIN if you have one, an organization email, website, phone, and your hours of operation.
- Contacts & Location. A primary contact name, email and phone, with room for a second and a third, plus the street address, city, state and ZIP. The address field autocompletes. This is what volunteers use to work out whether you are near them.
- Description & Media. What We Do and Who We Are in your own words, a logo, a featured image, a video, and links to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X and LinkedIn. This is the part volunteers read.
- Review & Submit. Everything on one screen before it goes.
You can move back and forth between the steps, and everything here is editable afterwards from the Profile tab of your dashboard.
What happens after you submit
Your organization is created straight away with a status of pending, and somebody at Kanu Hawaii reviews it. Approval can take up to two to three business days, depending on the day of the week we receive your request. Your dashboard shows which state it is in.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pending approval | We are reviewing it. You can keep editing your profile and writing opportunities while you wait. |
| Approved | Your organization is visible to volunteers. |
| Not approved | Something needs sorting out. Email us and we will tell you what. |
| Archived | The organization has been retired and is no longer listed. |
Register once
One organization per group, not one per campaign or per event. Opportunities, campaigns, and reports all hang off the organization, so a second registration splits your history in half. If you run several distinct programs, they are still one organization here.
Your organization may already be listed
Much of the old kanuhawaii.org was carried across, organizations included. If yours is among them, do not register a second one. Sign up with the contact email on the existing listing and you become its owner automatically, with its history, its opportunities, and its volunteers intact. Search organizations for your own name first.
Keeping the profile current
Edit Profile on the dashboard’s Profile tab reopens everything the registration form asked for, plus two further sections.
Settings:
- Donation Policy. Whether you accept donations. Shown on your public profile.
- Organization Type. School, where that applies.
- Default Status for New Volunteer Needs. Whether a new opportunity starts as a draft or goes straight to published. Set it to draft if more than one person writes them.
Hours & Approvals, covering whether volunteer-logged hours wait for you and how hours are displayed and entered. Those are explained in attendance and hours.
All of this is owner-only. An editor sees the Profile tab but not the Edit Profile button.
Your public profile lists every opportunity you have published, and is a reasonable thing to link to from your own site. If you would rather the listings appeared on your own pages, embed them instead.