Help

How to use The Beacon.

The Beacon is designed to keep sponsorship matching clear, local, and easier to manage without adding unnecessary complexity.

For leaders

Use the dashboard to seed demo data, review profiles, inspect requests, pause sponsors, close matches, and export CSVs for portability.

For sponsees

Start with the sponsee intake, complete the profile, review the top three matches, and send a connection request. If no match feels right, ask leadership for a manual introduction.

For sponsors

Complete the sponsor intake honestly, especially around lane, communication style, and real capacity. If you need a break, pause matching from the dashboard instead of letting requests stack up.

Manual override

The dashboard includes a manual match section so leadership can create a request when relational context matters more than the raw score.

Need human follow-up?

Use the admin note field on a request to track calls, pastoral context, or reasons a match was manually adjusted. This keeps the process visible without turning it into an overly complicated system.

For admin help, route questions through the CR leadership team managing the rollout.