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Volunteers: You've Got to Love 'Em
Rick Blain, CFRE
For
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Volunteering:It’s not a new concept
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
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Today’s Topics
• Advantages and disadvantages of using volunteers
• Recruiting and retaining volunteers• What motivates volunteers• Generational differences• Losing some good volunteers
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Corporation for National & Community Service: Volunteering in America
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Overview
• One in three adults (30.3%) volunteered through an organization, demonstrating that volunteering remains an important activity for millions of Americans.
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Overview• The overall volunteer rate increased by more
than 6% • Volunteers donated to charity at twice the rate of
non-volunteers• Generation X had the highest volunteer rate
among age groups at 36.4%• Baby Boomers had the highest number of hours
at more than 2.2 billion• Millennial volunteering increased more than 6%
since the last report, now at 28.2%Corporation for National & Community Service: Volunteering in America
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State Rankings by Volunteer Rate
• 18 New Hampshire 35.7%• 25 Massachusetts 32.6%
Rank State
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Where Do They Volunteer?• Religious organizations 32%• Sport, Hobby, Culture, Art 25%• Educational or youth service 19%• Health 6%• Civic, Political, Professional, International 6% • Environment & Animals 5%
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Our VolunteersYou’ve got to love ‘em
What would we do without them?
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How do you use volunteers?
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On Using Volunteers
Advantages and Disadvantages
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Why Do People Volunteer?• Passion for mission• Giving back• Professional advancement• Business enhancement• Employer policy• Mandatory Reciprocity• Family tradition• Social status• Other?
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Why do they volunteer?
“It is one of thebeautiful compensations of life that
no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Involuntary Volunteering
• Employer expectations• School requirement• Sometimes we “plant seeds”
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Students who were engaged in some sort of community service in high school — whether mandatory or voluntary — were more likely to volunteer or be involved in some civic activity.
Joseph E. Kahne, Mills College
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It’s Good For You
Volunteers who devote a “considerable” amount of time to volunteer activities
(about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit positive health outcomes.
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Those Valuable Volunteers
Where do we find them?
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Those Valuable VolunteersHow do we recruit them?
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Why Do We Lose Them?
• Lack of clarity• Mismatch• Not important or impactful• Not rewarding• Poor communication• Other?
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How Do We Use Them?
• What do you need them to do?• Job description/clarity• The reward• Job match
“Ask me about Mary’s napkins.”
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Volunteer Leadership
• Board• Committee• Other
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The Younger Generation Will Respond
• Fun• Win/win • Efficient • Technologically up-to-date• Team based • Empowered—a high level of freedom • Cut-to-the-chase decision making • Flexible—not one size fits all Fun
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Ticket sales are low for this year’s gala . . . So what will you say to your volunteers?
Write it down
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CommunicationMatures & Boomers“Ticket sales are low for this year’s gala. We need for each committee member to sell 20 tickets. Please reach out to your business and social network.”
Genexers and Millenials“Ticket sales are low for this year’s gala. What can we do about it?”
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Our Volunteers
You’ve got to love ‘em
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You’ve Got To Love ‘Em• Determine what you need of your volunteers.• Create a job description including time
requirement.• Carefully match the volunteer to the job.• Make it purposeful.• Make their job impactful.• Communicate effectively.• Appreciate them appropriately.
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Dr. Maya Angelou
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Thank you for your attention and participation.
Rick Blain
For