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The Six R's of Recruiting
RESPOND
Respond to changing societal trends. Many traditional organizations are experiencing a rapid decline in membership and volunteer numbers. These changes do not occur overnight, they develop over time. The organizations that are aware of trends and can respond when they first appear will always be able to recruit more than enough volunteers. Are there potential sources of volunteers you have yet to explore as your traditional sources decline? Where will your future volunteers come from?
Another trend found in our society today is that are people feeling rushed, too busy and unable to consider taking the time to volunteer. What stops people volunteering may be family commitments, study, work and a host of other time-dominated reasons. Why not address the things that get in the way of volunteering? For example, if you have ten university students who want to volunteer but don't have the time because they need to work on assignments, perhaps a member of the academic staff would volunteer to help them with more efficient techniques of assignment writing, enabling the students to work more efficiently - and to free them up to volunteer. Open up the possibilities!
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"So, as the power of the nation state declines and government services are withdrawn, cut back, targeted only to those most in need, it is very likely that civic life, the core of voluntary activities, will increase, not decrease, because people will still want the best for themselves and will volunteer for work that will make their communities better places to live in."
Don Edgar |
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