23 Reasons to Recruit Volunteers

Here's a hot list of 23 Reasons to Recruit Volunteers. I hope it gives you some new ideas.

1. You have work that needs to be done
2. You have a specific need that no one on staff can fill
3. It would be too expensive to hire someone to do the work
4. Volunteers become donors
5. You want to grow your organization
6. Your website hasn’t been updated in months
7. You have more work than you can handle
8. Your desk is a mess
9. You are spending too much time on tasks that someone else could easily be trained to do
10. Volunteers are ambassadors for your organization
11. Volunteers don’t get paid
12. You haven’t done a press release all year
13. You have a vision and can’t achieve it without help
14. You have an event coming up
15. You have a mailing to be done
16. Your building looks shabby
17. You don’t have great photos of your clients/services/programs
18. Somebody has to raise money
19. All your current volunteers are over 80
20. You are starting a new program
21. You need to form a team or committee and you don’t have enough people
22. They are your connection to the general public
23. They often represent the clients/guests you serve

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