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Volunteer Recruitment Basics
By Lorna Doone Brewer
For many nonprofit organizations, volunteer recruitment is an ongoing struggle. The need to find qualified volunteers is great, but the tactics necessary to seek them can be a little elusive. Because sometimes the most obvious solutions to problems are also the most difficult to see, today we’re just going to recap a few of the go-to places for finding enthusiastic volunteers.
- Run an ad in the local paper. Some of them even offer this as a free service to nonprofits.
- Utilize online volunteer recruitment resources.
- Set up booths at community events and job fairs.
- Work your personal network (and those of your employees).
- Appeal to your current donors.
- Transform clients into volunteers.
One of the most important aspects of recruiting volunteers, no matter what your method of finding them, is to “make the ask.” Again, this is fairly obvious information, but how many times do we just simply forget to ask people to volunteer?
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