How to recruit volunteers
Download the volunteer recruiting video (Quicktime: 38mb, 11:05)
Creating a volunteer sign-up page and volunteer events
- Create a volunteer sign-up page to start recruiting people.
Put it in the supporter nav so that someone who is visiting your website for the first time will see the option to sign-up on every page they visit; the more you ask, the more likely they are to sign up.
Volunteer shifts
- Include a video appeal in your volunteer sign-up page to make the ask personal. Let volunteers know that their actions will actually impact the success of your organization.
- Schedule volunteer events with enough time to make sure you can properly build for them. If the event is long and requires a lot of work, consider breaking up the day into shifts, thereby lessening the burden on your volunteers.
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Jesse Haff commented
2012-01-30 09:11:55 -0800
If you are logged in, the form will look differently — it won’t ask for information it already has (such as your first and last name). It will also look differently if you are already marked as a volunteer.
Ariel Beery commented
2012-01-29 05:28:12 -0800
This isn’t a helpful page. When I go to the volunteer page, it doesn’t give the form as shown above…and the 11min video takes waaaay to long. Make a few text lists so folks can quickly scan and see what they need to do.
