Session 1 - Working with Volunteers and Recruiting Volunteers ~ Volunteer management

8/9/2019 Session 1 - Working with Volunteers and Recruiting Volunteers ~ Volunteer management

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Volunteer ManagementStrategies for Greening Groups

Session One

Working With Volunteers

Recruiting Volunteers

Copyright 2004 Evergreen and EcoSuperior


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Volunteer Management:Session One Workshop

Agenda Welcome and Introduction

Introductory Activity

Working With Volunteers




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Photograph: Eliza Mitchell



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Introductory Activity



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It's one thing to know that

your organization needsadditional help and that

volunteers are the likely

source. It's quite another thing

to figure out how to best

involve volunteers.

-Norah McClintock, Volunteering

Numbers



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Project Plan Goals

Objectives

Prioritized task list



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Set Up Your System Volunteer coordinator

Contact Person

Tracking



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Determine andCommunicate Needs

Project information

How others can get involved



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Before You Begin to Recruit

Identify Your Target Groups

Target Your Recruitment

Communicate With Your Target

When Volunteers Step in the Door



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... 73% of the total number ofvolunteer hours contributed in

Canada is donated by less than

7% of all Canadians.

-Larry McKeown, Volunteering inCanada



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Successful recruitment isgetting the right person in the

right job with the right skills at

the right time.

-Lyn Fels, Getting Started -Establishing a volunteer program



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Before You Begin toRecruit

Know what you need volunteers to do.

What skills do you require and

when?

Develop job descriptions



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Before You Begin toRecruit

Design volunteer positions for varying

levels of responsibility, commitment

and experience.



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69% of Canadians who don't

volunteer cited lack of time as

the reason.

-Norah McClintock, Quick Tips for

Volunteer Management



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Identify Your TargetGroup

Know who is most likely to volunteer



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Who Volunteers? Canadians in their middle years (35-54)

Women, but men will put in more hours

University educated: volunteeringincreases with formal education

Employed people, but unemployed

people will put in more hours

Increasingly from the youth sector(15-24)

-Larry McKeown, Who are

Canada's Volunteers



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By activity

Clubs, associations, and special

interest groups

Specialty stores

Universities and technical institutes

Government organizations



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By association

More than 50% of people who

volunteer do so because they

are asked to by a friend,

co-worker or acquaintance.

-Norah McClintock, Quick Tips for

Volunteer Management



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What motivates greeningvolunteers?

Doing something to improve the

environment

Community connections

Building employment

relationships/experience

-Hands for Nature, Community

Greening Volunteerism Survey,

Evergreen.



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Sample RecruitmentMessage



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Communicate With

Your Target Face-to-face contact

Network, network, network

Contact your Volunteer Centre

(www.volunteer.ca)

Make full use of advertising and

publicity



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Example PromotionalFlyer



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Communicate WithYour Target

Make full use of advertising and

publicity Post flyers

Free Public Service Announcements,

human interest articles on radio,

television, newspapers, otherpublications

Internet:

www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/registry.html



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When Volunteers Step inthe Door

Screen

www.volunteer.ca

Interview

Provide Orientation

Train Your Volunteers



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An invitation to volunteer is a

strand in the thread that

connects. A program that says

'Welcome' in every way, overthe phone, in person, or in the

mail, invites a volunteer to be a

part. Volunteers who feel they

belong, return.

-Sarah Elliston, as quoted in

Volunteer Management:

Mobilizing all the Resources of

the Community



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Resources onRecruitment

Hands for Nature: A Volunteer

Management Handbook

(www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/docs/hands/)

A Guide to Volunteer Program

Management Resources- Volunteer

Canada (www.volunteer.ca)



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CreditsConcept: Lucie Lavoie, Lois Lindsay, Samara Newman.Principal Writer: Lucie Lavoie.Editor: Samara Newman and Keith Treffy.Reviewers: Lesley Curthoy, Linda Dupuis, Gary J. Michalak, Ellen Mortfield, Debby Morton.

Copyright 2004 Evergreen. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this resource for educational purposes is permit-ted and encouraged, provided appropriate acknowledgement is given.

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