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 Meeting (and exceeding) the expectations of your volunteers is essential to successful recruitment and long-term retention. What do volunteers expect? Today, Idealist.org published a new post titled: Top 10 Ways to be a Successful Long-term Volunteer [in Latin America]. While the "learning how to speak Spanish" tips are not that relevant to my readers, I found some other tips that I really like:
This got me thinking... If these tips are top-of-mind with our most successful and long term volunteers when they enter our organizations, than we have to ask: Do we have positions that meet the expectations of our volunteers we are recruiting? In general, volunteers want to ( actually, they EXPECT TO ):
Understanding your volunteers'NEEDS helps get them in the door. Meeting your volunteers' expectations keeps them coming back.  |
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