How to add organizations to a collaborative

A collaborative allows you to share ownership of events and volunteer lists between organizations. Any staff member can create a new collaborative and any existing member of a collaborative can add a new organization to it. However, you can only add an organization that already has a account on volunteer.legal to a collaborative (see How to add a new organization to volunteer.legal).

To add an organization that already has an account on volunteer.legal to a collaborative, follow these steps:
 * 1) Navigate to the "Settings" tab in the left hand menu.
 * 2) Navigate to the "Collaboratives" submenu tab in under the "Settings" tab in the left hand menu.
 * 3) Select the collaborative you wish to add an organization to.
 * 4) Navigate to the "Add Organization" page of the collaborative by clicking the "Add Organization" button in the bottom toolbar.
 * 5) Fill out the form on the Add Organization page
 * 6) Enter the EIN ("Employer Identification Number", assigned by the IRS) associated with the organization.
 * 7) If the organization you are trying to add is a government organization, it is likely that the EIN number associated with their account is actually their EIN number plus the department code (in the format: "EIN-Department Code").
 * 8) Click "Add Organization"
 * 9) If you get an error message saying that the EIN number could not be found, it means you either misspelled the EIN number as you were entering it, or the organization you are trying to add does not currently have an account on volunteer.legal.