Attracting and Sustaining Volunteers Workshop

Leadership – you have to do it yourself but you can’t do it alone has long been the mantra of the Blandin Foundation’s leadership program. It recognizes the important role of working with others, and in many cases volunteers, to work for change in community.

Attracting and Sustaining Volunteers is a highly interactive workshop that will help community leaders build a strong base of volunteers whose skills and interests match the activities they are asked to engage in. Participants attending this three hour workshop will learn how to:

Identify volunteers
- Understand why people volunteer and who volunteers for what
Effectively recruit volunteers
- Job descriptions for volunteers
- Communicating for recruitment
Develop ways to orient volunteers
- What do they need to know their first day on the job?
- How to welcome new volunteers
Sustain volunteers
- Maintaining the relationship
- Recognizing and honoring volunteers

Participants will apply what they learn in the workshop directly to their work in building broadband use and awareness in their communities and leave with an action plan for recruiting and sustaining their volunteer base. Two people from each of the Get Broadband communities will have an opportunity to attend, free of charge, Attracting and Sustaining Volunteers, the afternoon of October 18 in Alexandria.

Jim Krile, director of the Blandin Community Leadership Program will facilitate the workshop. Jim has been with the Foundation since 1986, and has an academic background is in sociology with an emphasis on organizational and community development.