Visit.org Glossary

Admin Toolbar - Navigation interface that provides Administrators with access to tools and settings for managing booking, events, registrations, users, and experiences within the Visit.org platform.
Assigned - A state specifically referring to Visit.org or Organization staff who are helping to facilitate or run a given event.
Attended - A status given to users who attended an event.
Attendee - A company employee who attended an event.
Attendee Status - A status indicating a user's relationship to a given event.
Booking Request - A request submitted by (or on behalf of) a corporate partner to book a given experience and schedule an event.
Booking Requester - The person who submitted the booking request.
Bulk Registration - A feature that allows company admin users or Visit.org staff to register multiple participants at once via a CSV file.
Calendar Invite - An invitation or block on a registrant's calendar representing a Visit.org event.
Canceled - A company employee who was registered for an event but canceled their registration.
Canceled event - A previously confirmed event that is no longer planned.
Co-host - An additional Visit.org team member facilitating an event with the organization.
Community Member - An person that is part of a specific group that is impacted or influenced through the involvement of a corporate partner via a social impact activity.
Completed event - A past event that took place with no further financial requirements.
Confirmed event - A scheduled event for a given corporate partner with an agreed upon date and time.
Corporate Partner - Corporations that partner with Visit.org by booking and participating in social impact activities.
Custom Event - An event that is not based on an experience in the Visit.org experience inventory, and without Visit.org or partner organization involvement.
Day of Service - A day where employees are encouraged to participate in their company's social impact efforts.
Donation Amount - Amount that goes towards the nonprofit organization to support their cause.
ESG - Environmental Social and Governance. A reporting framework companies use to report on their actions in these realms.
Event - A scheduled instance of an experience for a given corporate partner.
Event Format - How the event is facilitated and how the participants gather. Three main formats: Virtual, In Person, or On Demand.
Event Host - The Visit.org team member facilitating an event with the organization.
Event Packet - A list of information, including contacts, logistics and arrival instructions, for a given in person event provided to onsite event coordinators and hosts.
Event Page - The Visit.org page dedicated to a specific event booked by a corporate partner.
Event QR Code - A QR code, unique to a given event, which registers and marks as Attended any company employee who scans it and enters their information onsite at the event.
Event Recording - The recording of a past event available for that corporate partner's employees to watch.
Event registration confirmation - An email that sends to an employee after successfully registering for an event.
Event Settings - An internal, Visit-only page for managing an event.
Event Staff - A catch-all term for Visit.org team members involved in an event.
Event Status - The current state of a given event.
Experience - An activity, project, session, lecture, or other social impact offering available to our corporate partners.
Experience Location - Where the experience will take place and is only relevant to in-person experiences. A physical address is shared to participate in the experience.
Experience Page - The Visit.org page dedicated to a given experience in our inventory that allows corporate partners to submit requests to book.
Host slides - The slides that a Visit.org event host shares during a virtual event.
Impact Investment - Amount totaling the donation fee plus the total volunteer hour value used to measure employee time and dollar value invested by engaging in social impact activities.
Impact Report - Report used to review post-event metrics such as participation rate, attendance, impact investment, donation amount, event rating, and poll results.
In Person event - An event with participants joining together in a single location, either at a corporate partner's office or another location.
Internal Visit.org Events Calendar - An invitation or block on an internal, shared Google Calendar representing a Visit.org event.
Kit-building Activity - Social engagement activities with a hands-on focus
on making packs or kits with different supplies and materials to deliver to beneficiaries.
Left Early - A participant status indicating a company employee who attended an online event for less than 10 minutes.
Month of Service - A month where employees are encouraged to participate in their company's social impact efforts.
No Show - A status indicating a company employee who registered for an event but did not attend.
On Demand event - An event whose content is provided by Visit.org and executed by the corporate partner on a rolling basis over time, without Visit.org staff or an organization present.
Onsite Event Coordinator - A Visit.org team member hired to help set up, check in participants, facilitate, and clean up an in person event.
Organization - The Non-Profit Organization that is going to be impacted by the event.
Organization Facilitator - The person(s) from the organization assigned to facilitate a given event with Visit.org.
Organization Location - The place where the organization or nonprofit's headquarters are based in.
Panel Discussion Activity - Involves a group of speakers from one or more partner nonprofits gathered to discuss a social impact topic and share different perspectives.
Participant - A company employee who plans to or did attend an event.
Participation Survey - A brief survey to gather participants' feedback on their experience with the event.
Partner Nonprofits - A business that operates independently from the government, furthers a social cause, and provides a public benefit.
Partner Social Ventures - Social ventures have a social good mission central to their business model and reason for being.
Past - An event with a start date & time in the past.
Pending Event - An event that was recently booked and is in the process of being confirmed by both Visit.org and the nonprofit organization.
Producer - A Visit.org team member who assists in the technical setup and facilitation of an online event.
Programming - Describes multiple experiences under an umbrella theme.
Project-in-a-Box - Ready-to-implement social impact activities.
QR Scanner - A Visit.org feature used by Onsite Event Coordinators and Event Staff to scan participant QR Tickets and mark them Attended at an in person event.
QR Ticket - A unique ticket provided to registrants of in person events to be scanned onsite by Visit.org event staff.
Register - To provide a name, email, and other information if required, to indicate interest and plans to attend an event.
Registered - A status given to users who provide their name, email, and other information if required, indicating that they plan to attend an event.
Registrant - A company employee who registered for an event.
Registration Deadline - The date and time that registration for a given event becomes unavailable.
Requested event - A request for an event that is being reviewed by Visit.org and the organization.
Reschedule requested event - A previously confirmed event that is postponed and requires a new date to be set.
Run of Show - A document detailing the agenda of a given event with instructions, slide decks and other resources for the event host and staff.
Signature/Standard Virtual Library - Collection of virtual experiences with no customization found on the Visit.org Experiences website.
Skills-based Volunteering - A type of social impact activity related to professional development, education, STEM activities, business, entrepreneurship, etc.
Social Impact - An emotional commitment the employee has to the company and its goals.
Team Building Activity - A type of social impact activity where employees team up to work together, learn about one another, and build positive relationships while contributing to a good cause.
Tech Check - A meeting dedicated to go over the technical details of a virtual call with the purpose of preventing any issues prior to an event.
UN SDGs - These are the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Upcoming event - An event with a start date & time in the future.
Virtual event - An event hosted, facilitated, and attended virtually via video conferencing tool.
Volunteer Hour - The time spent by an employee that participates in a social impact activity.
Volunteer Impact Value - The dollar value of the time spent by an employee that participates in a social impact activity. (Estimated value in the US; source: Independent Sector - Value of Volunteer Time Report)
Waitlist - A list of company employees who tried to register for an event, but the capacity was reached before they could register.
Waitlisted - A status given to users who are on the waitlist for an event and not registered.
Week of Service - A week where employees are encouraged to participate in their company's social impact efforts.
Zoom - Visit.org's default virtual meeting provider.
Zoom Polls - Surveys specifically designed and sent via Zoom after a virtual event.

Visit.org Glossary

Definitions, terms, and specialized vocabulary used within the Visit.org platform and organization.