DOUBLE YOUR VOLUNTEERS

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DOUBLE YOUR VOLUNTEERS

• Keep TN Beautiful 2002 Regional Seminar
• Session Edith Heller

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Why do we want volunteers?
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WHY?

• Partnerships with community
• Expand leadership
• Service Learning
• Peer expectations
• Good workers
• Limited budget
• More manpower

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Volunteer a person who chooses freely to do
something

• Teens 59
• Age 25 35 62
• Age 35 44 64
• Age 45 - 64 51
• Age 65 74 42

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TENNESSEE Average County

• Teens 1,278
• Age 25 34 3,042
• Age 35 44 3,729
• Age 45 64 5,521
• Age 65 74 1,566
• Volunteer Pool 15,136

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Where do people volunteer?

• Informal areas 24
• Religious organizations 23
• Youth development 18
• Education 17
• Human Services 16
• Health 11
• Work-related groups 10
• Environment 9

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TENNESSEEs Average County has pool of
1,362 people for their environmental
projects!
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Why do people volunteer?

• 97 want to help others
• 93 enjoy the work
• 89 interested in specific work/cause
• 76 feel responsibility to volunteer
• 59 someone they know asked them

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VOLUNTEER MOTIVATIONSWhich are you?

• Achievement
• Affiliation
• Influence

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Volunteer management Needs all!

• Affiliation The chatty team person, who
  makes the project fun.
• Achievement The doer person, who completes
  tasks toward the goal.
• Influence The idea person, who
• visions the goal.

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• Self-Actualization Needs Self-fulfillment
• Ego Needs Self-esteem Recognition
• Social Needs Belonging
• Safety Needs Physical Psychological Safety
• Physiological Needs Food, shelter and water

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Hear where your volunteer is!

• SA It needs to be done and makes my city
  better.
• Ego I feel good when I volunteer and my
  family thinks its important work.
• Social- Its fun and our team is great!
• Safety I want this park clean for my
  children.

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Independent Sector Impact

• Giving and volunteering is at the heart of
  citizen action and central to their ability to
  serve their community.
• 1.23 million charities
• 83.9 million volunteers
• 239.2 billion value of volunteer time

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Why ASK?

• 50 volunteer because they were asked
• by a friend (30), by church (5)
• or by family (5).
• 50 volunteer through organizations that asked
  schools (25), churches (15), service clubs
  (10) and work (7).

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Who to ask Boomers

• Baby Boomers born 1946 1964
• 1/3 pop. and 44 of discretionary funds
• Best educated
• Value religion/spirituality
• Dual income and value leisure time
• Job satisfaction more important than

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How to ask Boomers

• Personal requests from trusted friends and
• co-workers and email communication.
• Flexible commitment, easy and convenient.
• Meaningful opportunities/ learning experience
• Enjoyable work FUN
• Family service (combination or child care)
• Team spirit
• Meaningful and frequent recognition

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Who to ask Gen Xers

• Generation Xers born 1965 1974
• Smaller group can pick and choose jobs
• Raised in day care identify with peers
• Latch key kids/product of divorce, turned to
• peers and away from hierarchy.
• Brash attitude of enlightenment skeptical of
• business values
• Seeking authentic meaning, not changing
• the world

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How to ask Gen Xers

• Well-defined, short-term job with groups
• of peers
• Meaningful work local focus of
• the big picture
• Like environment and travel
• Want opportunities for personal growth
• Downplay the role of hierarchy authority
• Reach with web, email and hand-held PCs

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Who to ask 21st Century Generation

• 21st Century Generation born after 1975
• Never lived without Web or email
• Know only 3 presidents Reagan is an airport
• Vietnam is a tourist destination
• Feel compassion toward people in need
• Believe it is within their power to change
• social problems

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How to ask 21st Century Generation

• Group as whole is serious-minded
• Respect and admire authority
• Find meaning in simple things
• Feel compassion toward people in need
• Reached through electronic media
• Pay attention . . . They are going places

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The ASK

• Be motivated
• Be clear specific
• Use titles/job descriptions
• Be honest- dont minimize job
• Provide goal

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Go for it Ask 1,362 people to volunteer
for you!