If your organization is building a corps of volunteers from scratch, consider conducting a recruitment drive similar to a fundraising campaign.
As a first step, identify the target audience for a recruitment message. You may discover existing donors are perfect candidates for volunteers. Experts point out that Donors have already voted with their dollars in support of your organization’s mission. With just the right kind of volunteer management message, they can be persuaded to donate not only their “treasure” but also their time and talent.
If you are expanding beyond your donor base in search of volunteers, a volunteer management best practice is to ask donors for help by leveraging their personal and professional networks. Often a request from someone they know will be more likely to motivate a person to volunteer.
Once volunteer candidate contact information is known, it can be added into the Affnetz™ Volunteer Database.