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Logging and Viewing Hours Within the Opportunities Platform

In this article, discover how to find opportunities to volunteer, log your hours and view your participation.

Written by Stacy Zinken

ℹ️ Note: This functionality is not available to all users. If you don’t have access to this dashboard and believe you should, please reach out to your Community Impact, Pro Bono, or Volunteering administrator.

Welcome to your Paladin Dashboard! From here, you can:

From this page, you can view and log hours for opportunities you’ve added using the + New External Opportunity button, as well as opportunities you’ve volunteered for through Paladin. You’ll also see Recommended Opportunities at the top of the page, giving you a quick way to discover opportunities tailored to your interests without navigating to Browse Opportunities from the main navigation.

View Your Participation (My Participation Table)

Navigate to the My Participation table, where you’ll see two tabs: All Opportunities and Review Required.

All Opportunities

By default, you’ll be brought to the All Opportunities tab. This includes:

  • External Opportunities you’ve added using the + New External Opportunity button.

  • Paladin Opportunities you’ve volunteered for and reviewed, confirming that you participated.

Review Required

The Review Required tab highlights opportunities that need additional information or confirmation before they can be included in your participation record.

An opportunity may appear here for one of two reasons:

  1. Paladin Opportunity: If you volunteered for an opportunity through Paladin, it will first appear here so you can confirm whether you participated and provide your participation details.

  2. Administrator Request: An administrator may send an opportunity back to you if additional information or clarification is needed. If an External Opportunity appears in Review Required, we recommend contacting your internal administrator for more information.

Once you provide the required information and resubmit, the opportunity will move to All Opportunities, and any associated hours will be included in your participation totals.

Log or Update Your Volunteer Hours

To log or update your hours, find the opportunity in My Participation and click Actions on the right-hand side.

For an External Opportunity—an opportunity you found outside of Paladin and added yourself—select Edit to return to the Edit an External Volunteering Opportunity page. From there, you can update the opportunity details, as well as your participation dates and hours.

For a Paladin Opportunity—an opportunity you found and volunteered for through Paladin—select Edit to open the Edit Opportunity Participation window, where you can add or update your participation dates and hours.

Discover Opportunities to Volunteer

At the top of the page, you’ll see Recommended Opportunities. Once you set your preferences, these recommendations will be tailored to your interests.

Click an opportunity title to view its full description and details. To learn more about the information included on an opportunity detail page, click here.

To explore all available opportunities, click Show more opportunities or Browse all opportunities.

You can also access the full list at any time by selecting your name in the top-right corner and clicking Browse Opportunities.

Add External Volunteer Opportunities

You can also track volunteering opportunities you found outside of Paladin. To add one, click + New External Opportunity.

You’ll first be prompted to enter information about the opportunity, such as its title, description, and status.

Next, enter your volunteer hours, including the date you volunteered, the number of hours contributed, and a brief description of the work you completed. You can add as many entries as needed.

Pro Tip: If the description is the same for multiple dates, use the Duplicate button to copy an entry, then simply update the date.

Click Continue to categorize the opportunity by causes and communities served.

Once you click Save, the opportunity will appear in the My Participation section of your dashboard. Follow the steps above anytime you need to add or update your hours.

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