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The goal of this document is to ensure that information provided by VolunteerMatch and our more than 130,000 nonprofit members is presented in a clear and consistent manner across applications. This document is divided into sections based on the most common API calls and pages in your application that present the capabilities and data.

Search & Display of Opportunities

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• Please see our public repository in Github for sample code and getting started instructions.

• All development and testing must be done on our stage environment (stage.volunteermatch.org) using a stage API Key.

• Connections made in this environment will not be sent to our nonprofit partners and protects them from SPAM.

• Note that our stage database contains test data, and is not representative of our live network. Testing or demoing connection functionality on production quality data can only be made using special systems. VolunteerMatch will provide this upon request when you are ready to release.

• If a client key is NO longer active, the following response will be returned: 401 Your API key is inactive.