What are the best methods to getting volunteers for a non-profit organization?

Question

seeking help in starting my non-proft org.

Answer 1

Find where potential volunteers congregate in large numbers. Look at your current voluteers. Do you see any patterns to their age, gender, race, religion, education, marital status, occupation? If you do, ask yourself, how can I reach out to this particular demographics? Where are they reachable in large numbers (at work, at school, in church, at a community center)?

Alternatively, you could use a shotgun approach. Get the local press to write about you and be sure they mention you welcome new volunteers.

Answer 2

Get on the telephone and start dialing. You can call right out of the phone book or perhaps from a list you know (school, church, club, organization, etc.). It's a very personal way of asking for someone to help out from time to time. You can buy a list from companies that specialize in that area... I'd recommend going after retirees who may be looking for some personally satisfying way to spend some time. Don't worry about the Federal Do Not Call List... you're exempt being non-profit.

Answer 3

Colleges all have community service groups that need new projects to do. High schools also have community service groups, which are important because students often have to document their hours of service in competition for scholarships or college acceptance. Call local schools and ask for the club sponsor, and they'll probably be more than happy to help.
These kinds of clubs/groups often like something new to do in addition to their "tried and true" yearly events.

Answer 4

Send the most personable-type people who are in an upbeat mood (at the right moment) out into the public in ANY and EVERY way you can, face-to-face, (carry some grass-roots in between your teeth if you have to) and let them extoll the virtues of volunteer service!

Answer 5

list openings on http://www.volunteermatch.org

Create profiles of the people most likely to be interested in your organization then do some direct marketing to them. Could be via day care centers, sporting goods shops, churches, schools... it all depends what your organization does and what kind of people you are seeking.

Answer 6

Passionately convey the importance of what your organization is doing and how their assistance can make a difference. Felling pride in what you do is worth more than any money amount.

Answer 7

some times u should take them out 4 lunch or throw a cookout with a theme like a Hawaiian luau

Answer 8

Go to churches on Sunday morning and ask if you might ask for voulunteers at end of service. Ask to permission to put up flier asking for volunteers on their post boards.

Answer 9

College bulletin boards.

Answer 10

asking for help