Fundraising with Volunteers Course

What do volunteers have to do with fundraising?

Did you know?  

According to a study by Volunteermatch and Fidelity Investments in 2009, volunteers give 10x more money than those who don’t volunteer.

That’s right. Your volunteers constitute high-potential donors.

Volunteer retention increases with age HOWEVER according to the National Service 2007 report, one in three volunteers do not volunteer again the next year.2

I hope this gives you the idea to start soliciting your volunteers for donations, if you’re not already doing this!

This course will help you learn not just how to find, engage and retain volunteers, but it will also help you see the potential in your volunteers to help you with a multitude of fundraising tasks that don’t “look like” fundraising.

This week we’re going to talk about:  

1. Source: Volunteermatch and Fidelity Study, 2009 http://blogs.volunteermatch.org/engagingvolunteers/2009/12/03/newstudy-volunteers-give-10x-as-much-money-as-non-volunteers/
2. Volunteering in America: 2007 State Trends and Rankings in Civic Life http://www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/via_brief_ret ention.pdf

• Best websites to recruit volunteers
• Which corporations have robust volunteering programs
• Compelling Volunteer job descriptions
• Help your volunteers feel valued: Super volunteer surveys
• How to show you’ll be a good partner for corporations
• Recruiting younger volunteers/diverse volunteers
• How volunteers can earn you money right away 

Let’s get started!