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This article explains the nuanced differences between each kind of event that can be created on Mobilize.

Overview of Mobilize Events and Actions

Build your Supporter list, gauge interest in a cause, or capture sign ups for an ongoing effort with Interest Forms

Create an Interest Form

With petitions, your supporters can easily pledge their support to your organization with the quick click of a button.

Create a petition on Mobilize

Use anytime actions to encourage volunteers to take action online on their own time.

Create an Anytime Action form

Whether one-time or recurring, this article walks you through how to create a scheduled event on Mobilize as an Admin.

Create a Scheduled Event

As an Admin, you can duplicate any event hosted by your organization

Duplicate an event or action

This article will explain what automated (and host initiated) emails and SMS are being sent to attendees and when they are being sent.

Mobilize Automated Email and SMS Notifications

Make sure your virtual events are set up correctly for a seamless volunteer experience

Add Conference Links to Virtual Events

Empower your supporters to recruit their friends, family, and community to volunteer with them.

Enable Group Signup

Chat allows your attendees to connect and collaborate

How to Configure Chat

Allow event attendees and volunteers to check in via email before or during an event

How to set up volunteer self-check-in for in-person events

Answers to questions like, "How big should my image be?",  "What does 2:1 aspect ratio even mean?", and "What format should I upload?"

Uploading an event photo

Add an event specific reply-to email address

As an Admin, you can create and manage Additional fields to collect additional information on the signup form

Add additional fields to your event signup pages

Sync checkbox field response to VAN/EA action platforms as an Activist Code or Survey Response

Sync checkbox additional fields to VAN/EA

As an event host, you can add locations to virtual events to organize in your community - from anywhere!

Add a location to virtual events to recruit local supporters

Statewide events

All event hosts can set the primary language of an event to Spanish. The sign up form and automated notifications will be shown in Spanish.

Configure Spanish events and actions

Automated communications in Spanish

As an Admin, you can tag any of your org's events. By tagging events, volunteers can filter event feeds by the items most important to them.

Categorize events with tags

How to create and manage your events in the U.S. Territories & Commonwealths, including Puerto Rico

Support for events in U.S. Territories & Commonwealths

Donate-to-RSVP workaround

You can now fundraise for your organization directly on Mobilize using ActBlue, PayPal, and other payment links. Ready? Let's get FUNDED!

Increase donations from supporters with post-signup fundraising asks

Create a group in support of your organization, send messages to group members, and connect events to your group.

Create a group for your organization on Mobilize (for Admins)

Don’t want to turn away eager Supporters? Enable a waitlist to capture Supporter interest and fill every open spot.

Enable and Manage a Waitlist

How to create and configure different event types

Create an event or action

Your Mobilize dashboard

Status page

Find volunteer opportunities

Get Mobilize for your organization

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