Growing an Organization by Planting Volunteers

Avni Khatri &

Stormy Peters

1 out of 3 volunteers do not return the next year

http://www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/via_brief_retentio

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Does open source software do it better?

CRAZY?!?!

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Pat yourself on the back

1st Pycon

Hard to walk up and introduce yoruself

Remember the intro points

3 things today

• Growing community

• Keeping the web open

• Helping people be responsible

Why?

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What motivates you?

3 things today

• Growing community

• Keeping the web open

• Helping people be responsible

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Make it easy

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Answer quickly

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Vision & Direction

Clear processes

Make it clear what projects your org has going on and what

current volunteer needs are

Grow Leaders

Enable & Empower

Value Contributions

Extrinsic

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3 things today

• Growing community

• Keeping the web open

• Helping people be responsible

Avni Khatri@avni321

Stormy Peters@storming

Backup/temp Slides

Why?

Bounties

Need

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Skills

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Creative

Interesting

Community

3 things today

• Growing community

• Keeping the web open

• Helping people be responsible

Mentorship

Identify Passions

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3 things today

• Growing community

• Keeping the web open

• Helping people be responsible

What canpossibly

go wrong?

Not sharing what you are doing

Not being open

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Not helping new people

Not enough time

Not empowering

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Founders syndrome

Expanding your culture

Join whatever, stay culture

You get what you measure, show impact

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Grow community by:● Understanding motivations● Finding passion● Enabling it

Stormy Peters

stormy@stormyscorner.com

@storming