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How do you keep volunteers past the first three months?
We get plenty of sign-ups after an event and almost nobody is still there by month four.
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Also ask them why they came. People volunteering to learn a skill need different things from people volunteering out of duty, and we used to treat both the same.
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Give them one thing that is theirs. Volunteers who are helping leave. Volunteers who are responsible for something stay, because it stops being your project and starts being partly theirs.
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This matched our experience exactly. The two who stayed both had a specific job nobody else did.
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