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Use nonprofit team templates

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    Microsoft Teams

Team templates in Microsoft Teams allow you to quickly and easily create teams by providing a predefined team structure of settings, channels, and pre-installed apps.

For nonprofit organizations, team templates can be especially powerful, as they help you to quickly deploy consistent teams across your organization. Templates also help staff to get oriented with how to effectively use Teams.

Teams includes a Manage Volunteers team template designed to streamline volunteer management activities. Use this pre-built template to quickly create teams for staff to communicate and collaborate on volunteer management tasks and activities.

In this article, you'll learn about the Manage Volunteers team template and how to use it to create a team. This article also gives you an overview of how to manage team templates in the Teams admin center.

Manage Volunteers team template

Bring your staff together to communicate and collaborate on volunteer management tasks and activities.

This template includes channels and apps designed to streamline volunteer management activities. Staff can organize and share onboarding materials and frequently used documents, view reporting, stay up to date on important team and event announcements, and more. The template also integrates with Volunteer Management, an app that's part of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, enabling staff to manage volunteer engagement opportunities within Teams.

Here's the channels and apps that come with the Manage Volunteers team template.

Template type TemplateId Properties that come with this template
Manage Volunteers com.microsoft.teams.template.ManageVolunteers Channels:
  • General
    • Website¹
  • Announcements
  • Reporting
    • Power BI¹
  • Volunteer Management
    • Power Apps¹
  • Engagement Opportunities
    • Tasks by Planner and To Do¹
  • Volunteer Onboarding
    • SharePoint¹
    • OneNote¹
Apps:
  • OneNote
  • Power Apps
  • Power BI
  • SharePoint
  • Tasks by Planner and To Do
  • Website
  • YouTube

¹App added to the channel as a tab.

Create a team using the Manage volunteers team template

Create the team

It takes only a few quick steps to create a team from the Manage volunteers template.

  1. In Teams, go to Teams > Join or create a team > Create team.
  2. Choose the Manage volunteers team template.
  3. Choose a privacy level:
    • Private: People need permission from the team owner to join the team.
    • Public: Anyone in your organization can join the team.
  4. Give your team a name and add a description. You can also rename channels to customize the team.
  5. Select Create.

To learn more, see Create a team with a team template.

Add the Volunteer Management app to the Power Apps tab

To use the Volunteer Management app in Teams, add it to the Power Apps tab in the Volunteer Management channel.

  1. In Teams, go to the team you created, choose the Volunteer Management channel, and then select the Power Apps tab.
  2. In the drop-down list, select Model-driven apps, and then search for and select Volunteer Management.
  3. Select Save.

To learn more, see Embed a model-driven app as a tab app in Teams.

View and manage team templates in the Teams admin center

If you're an admin, you can view and manage team templates in the Microsoft Teams admin center. To view the Manage volunteers template, in the left navigation of the Teams admin center, go to Teams > Team templates.

You can also create and assign templates policies to your users to control which templates they see in Teams for creating teams.

To learn more about team templates in general, see Get started with team templates in the Teams admin center.