A volunteerism consultant once suggested to consider not recognizing years of service but recognize actions that you appreciate. We use to send volunteers postcards and pictures describing what we appreciated in their service to our mission. Sometimes recognizing years of service encourages a volunteer to stay on when their service is no longer helpful to the mission.
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-----Original Message----- From: Thethinktank [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Edward Kirkwood Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:09 PM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Volunteer Appreciation
Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop is looking to implement a more formal volunteer appreciation process in an effort to retain and acknowledge volunteers better. Looking for input on how the rest of the community bike shop world handles this. Do you acknowledge individuals for length of service by hours volunteered or simply an anniversary of their first date of volunteer service? What tiers of acknowledgement do you implement such as 1 month, 2 months, up to 6 months and then perhaps each year after that, 1 year, 2 years ...........and so on?
Volunteers are our most valuable resource and as we try to expand our hours of operation we need more folks since we are a 100% volunteer organization.
Allen Kirkwood Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop Lexington, KY