# Spark API
The Spark API helps you empower your employees and spread engagement across multiple platforms. By searching for your program's giving and volunteering opportunities, you can present featured content and tailor the results to fit each of your employees' needs.
# Giving opportunities
Giving opportunities are specific initiatives or projects that are created to facilitate donations to a cause, or group of causes. The opportunity will raise funds towards a specified goal and can be shared company-wide. There isn't a functional difference between donating to a cause or giving opportunity, except that a giving opportunity could contain more than one cause, so your donation would be split evenly between all of the causes.
# Volunteer opportunities
Volunteer opportunities are events organized to help support your company's charity partners. Your employees are able to sign up for these events and track the time that they've put in.
# Get Started
In order to access the APIs, you will need to first obtain your access credentials. If you haven't already done so, please request access (opens new window).