Enhance Volunteer Recruitment

Lead Organization

Ad Hoc project Team

Mission

To improve the methods and capabilities used to develop, grow and encourage volunteers and volunteerism in Region 3

Assignments

George McClure, Chair
Bill Ratcliff

Major Activities / Milestones

• Assign Team: 29 January 2006.
• Initial Plan / Milestones:
1. Collect suggestions for process.
2. Describe the objectives, enlist volunteers to ad hoc committee to work the problem.
3. Survey tools available—books on the topic,etc
4. Solicit 2-3 sections as testbeds to apply the suggested tips
5. Collect feedback from those sections.
6. Distill into “Section Best Practices” chapter on Volunteerism

• Phased Implementation throughout 2006 and 2007

Objectives, Actions and Deliverables:

• Enhance R3 Succession Planning Process for Volunteers and improve involvement of Sections
• Structure job to fit volunteers’ time
• Express appreciation for job completion, encourage trying another one
• Provide mentoring, section-level training
• Making it a pleasant experience encourages repeat performances
• Provide an “Elevator speech” for use at meetings
• Introduce other section/chapter members – reach out – make them feel comfortable
• Have job descriptions to be filled
• Contact through meeting sign-in sheets
• Personal contact – face-to-face contacts and phone calls best
• Increase awareness of existing recruiting capabilities like the Volunteer Toolkit