1. Keep Recruiting Volunteers
It’s really do or die!

2. Why does your affiliate use volunteers?

3. Volunteers are used: In construction, yes, but ALSO On the board
In the office
In the ReStore
On standing committees
On ad-hoc task forces

4. When using volunteers, ask:
What does the affiliate need or need done?
How could a volunteer help or be the solution to that problem?
What will we provide- what’s in it for the volunteer?
Good volunteer placements benefit the person as well as the organization

5. WHY look for new volunteers?
Sustainability
Key volunteer corps at many affiliates are aging out. We need to replace those long time stalwarts and it won’t be easy
Community Impact
Each involved person is a potential donor and advocate
Diversity
We need to have new ideas constantly

6. Attracting New People is a PROCESS
Identify
Cultivate
Ask
Orient
Involve
Educate
Evaluate (Don’t keep folks that don’t help)

7. Ladder of Effectiveness
Personal: Face to Face
Personal letter or telephone call
Personalized letter/
Telephone solicitation
Impersonal letter/direct mail
Impersonal telephone call/phone-a-thon
Fundraising benefit/Special Event
Door to Door
Media/Advertising

8. Where are some places you can look?
HINT- Who do your most involved people already know?

9. COMMITTEES- A Few Words About
They are commonly misunderstood at affiliates

10. Board Committees:
Are the ONLY ones that do board work, need board members
Executive
Personnel
Finance
Planning
Board Recruitment and Education

11. Operating Committees Serve as EXTRA staff
Should report through staff not board channels
Family selection, support, fund-raising, construction etc. committees are operating committees
Do not have to be board members or have board chairs

12. Consider Time Limited, Ad Hoc Committees
For special events, special projects, research etc.
Allows people to serve on a project, for a short time
Good place to recruit future leaders
BIGGEST CHANGE IN VOLUNTEERING-
PEOPLE want SHORT TERM but HIGH INVOLVEMENT opportunities

13. If You Want to Contact Me
Mark Eul
Capacity Building Department, ODC
It’s that simple

14. Practical Application….
Questions and Answers with
MICHELLE “MICKEY” KAUFFMAN
ED at HFH of Kosciusko County (Warsaw)
Mickey has lived what we are talking about!

15. Now Get Out There… And Give it a Try! Remember to Cultivate
Remember to Ask What’s In It for the Volunteer- Is it Mutually Beneficial?
Consider Shorter Term, High Impact!!
THANKS for all YOU do!