Nonprofits
Volunteer Engagement
Volunteer Engagement is a Power Pages React single-page application (SPA), built on the Microsoft Power Platform, that gives volunteers a self-service web experience to discover opportunities, apply or register for engagements, manage their profile, and review their engagements. This package contains the Power Pages Enhanced Data Model implementation and AI-assisted guidance for migrating legacy Volunteer Engagement site customizations to Volunteer Engagement 2.0.
Volunteers can use Volunteer Engagement to:
- Create and update a profile with experience, skills, interests, availability, and contact information.
- Search for engagement opportunities that match their interests, schedule, and location.
- Apply or register for engagement opportunities by using their volunteer profile.
- Review upcoming and previous engagements, including participation details and contributed hours.
Volunteer Engagement works with Volunteer Management, where staff create and manage the engagement opportunities that volunteers see, and is built on Common Data Model for Nonprofits. Install and configure both in the target environment before you deploy Volunteer Engagement.
Deploy
Deploy Volunteer Engagement. Run all development and deployment commands from Portal-EDM/.
Before you deploy, confirm that:
- Common Data Model for Nonprofits and Volunteer Management are installed and configured in the target environment.
- Power Pages Enhanced Data Model is enabled.
- Power Platform CLI is installed and authenticated.
Volunteer Engagement itself doesn’t need to be preinstalled.
Choose the right path
- New Volunteer Engagement site: use the Deployment Checklist. Install and configure Common Data Model for Nonprofits and Volunteer Management first, then deploy Volunteer Engagement from
Portal-EDM/. - Customized legacy Volunteer Engagement site: use the Migration Checklist. The migration guidance is AI-assisted. Use the existing site export as the source of truth and migrate approved customizations onto the
Portal-EDMbaseline. - Uncustomized legacy Volunteer Engagement site: use the Migration Checklist for classification and validation. Do not rebuild legacy Liquid pages that are already replaced by the React SPA.
- Security or authentication review: use the Security and Permissions Checklist before go-live and whenever migration changes touch security-sensitive metadata.
- Go-live or support review: use the Operations Checklist for site visibility, custom domain, Site Checker, caching, and restart checks.
AI-assisted development and migration
Volunteer Engagement-specific AI guidance is stored in .ai/ and .github/. When using Copilot to work on this solution, open VolunteerEngagement/ as the workspace root so that folder-local guidance is available for VE tasks.
For scenario-specific AI instruction files for SPA development, customization, deployment validation, and migration, see Portal-EDM/README.md.