Volunteers

Answer:

• Growing interest in the party, but not always jobs immediately available for volunteers
• Some volunteers highly engaged but danger of burnout
• Competing for people’s time
• Difficult to get volunteers if they don’t know about the organization

Recruiting volunteers

• People do what they like to do
• Encourage the leader in the volunteer. Create space for them to be a leader
• Have co-chairs to split the workload
• Removal of barriers
• Build a community
• Ask new volunteer to bring a friend
• Develop team building processes
• When you make the ask for a volunteer, you need to make sure there is an activity for the volunteer to do
• Need to build relationships
• Provide physical and emotional support for volunteers ex. social events, food
• Hold workshops for volunteers
• Avoid being “politically in your face”
• Provide a structured approach to onboarding volunteers