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Session One
Working With Volunteers
Recruiting Volunteers
Volunteer Management:
Session One Workshop
Agenda
• Welcome and Introduction
• Introductory Activity
• Working With Volunteers
• Recruiting Volunteers
Introductory Activity
Working with
Volunteers
Project Plan
• Goals
• Objectives
• Prioritized task list
Determine and
Communicate Needs
• Project information
• How others can get involved
Recruiting Volunteers
Recruiting Volunteers
• Before You Begin to Recruit
• Identify Your Target Groups
• Target Your Recruitment
• Communicate With Your Target
• When Volunteers Step in the Door
“Successful recruitment is
getting the right person in the
right job with the right skills at
the right time.”
Who Volunteers?
• Canadians in their middle years (35-54)
• Women, but men will put in more hours
• University educated: volunteering
increases with formal education
• Employed people, but unemployed
people will put in more hours
• Increasingly from the youth sector
(15-24)
Communicate With
Your Target
• Develop a recruitment message.
− What you have to offer
− Appeal to volunteer's motivation
Sample Recruitment
Message
Communicate With
Your Target
• Face-to-face contact
• Network, network, network
• Contact your Volunteer Centre
(www.volunteer.ca)
• Make full use of advertising and
publicity
Example Promotional
Flyer
Communicate With
Your Target
• Make full use of advertising and
publicity
− Post flyers
− Free Public Service Announcements,
human interest articles on radio,
television, newspapers, other
publications
− Internet:
www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/registry.html
• Interview
• Provide Orientation
• Train Your Volunteers
Resources on
Recruitment
Hands for Nature: A Volunteer
Management Handbook
(www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/docs/hands/)
A Guide to Volunteer Program
Management Resources - Volunteer
Canada (www.volunteer.ca)