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Submitted
on 02Jul14 by Cathy Philipsky, Volunteer Coordinator - St. Francis
Home, Wisconsin, USA
I agree that you need to
start children early to be "life-long" volunteers. I work
for a nursing home and my goal is not only to develop youth into long-term
volunteers, but to also see the benefits of working with the elderly
and the long-term health care field.
When I first started coordinating the volunteer program, I was told
not to have anyone under 16 volunteer because they would be a waste
of my time. I have found many volunteers under the age of 16 who have
been more reliable than some of my adult volunteers. They enjoy volunteering
and the residents really enjoy the contact.
I would like to see more families getting involved in volunteering
- parents spending time with their children, having a sense of community,
and helping others at the same time. How can we show them that volunteering
is worth while, important, and it does not take that much of a time
commitment?
Submitted on 2002July3 by Colette Mandin, Coordinator
of Volunteers, The Support Network, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
What gets the heat going? I want to respond to your
statement about executives understanding fundraising but not people
raising. This is true in our area as well and is reflected in planning,
priority setting and attitudes. And yet, the value of contributed
time for organizations often supercedes the financial support.
I'm not sure what the huge leap is in understanding that one is about
cultivating relationships, and the other is about cultivating relationships!
One is about supporting the organization and the other is about supporting
the organization! Because the means to the end are different, there
is a sudden leap of understanding. People raising is hugely important
to both fundraising and volunteer support.
Volunteers are often donors, donors are often volunteers.
There sometimes, though, seems to be a black hole between the management
of the two. How can we, as volunteer human resource managers, get
that message out?
(This answer was also posted to the response page of
Wall of Executive Indifference.)
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