[TheThinkTank] Re: How do you recruit volunteers? (Bike Saviours)

14 May 2025 · *Nicole Muratore, Shop Manager*

      To Rosey at Lefty Loosey, do you have a curriculum you can share for your
6-session fundamentals course?
We host an orientation once or twice a month and advertise in-shop and on
social media. Patrons and frequent visitors are also chatted up about their
interest and many of our volunteers come from this pool.
Good discussion - we've had trouble staffing our repair days and retaining
a portion of volunteers who have felt "thrown into the fire" and a bit
overwhelmed in the beginning. A fundamentals course would give them more
structure!
Cheers,
*Nicole Muratore, Shop Manager* (she/her)
Bike Saviours Bicycle Collective
(602) 429-9369 | bikesaviours.org | @bikesaviours
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Subject: [TheThinkTank] How do you recruit volunteers?
Hello, all --
At the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg (VA), we would love to expand our
hours, but we're all volunteers giving as much time as we can.  An obvious
path forward is bringing more volunteers on board.  So -- my question: How
do you recruit volunteers?
Many thanks!
Andy Ballentine
Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:48:35 -0700
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: How do you recruit volunteers?
many of our volunteers started off as patrons. We would ask patrons if
they would be interested in volunteering.
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM Andy Ballentine via TheThinkTank <
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Hello, all --
At the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg (VA), we would love to expand our
hours, but we're all volunteers giving as much time as we can.  An obvious
path forward is bringing more volunteers on board.  So -- my question: How
do you recruit volunteers?
Many thanks!
Andy Ballentine
Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 14:58:15 -0400
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: How do you recruit volunteers?
We use our 6-session mechanics fundamentals course partly as a way to
invite people to contribute to the shop. It's been a very good way to bring
people in, and helps with both building skill and helping maintain the
culture we are trying to have in the shop. Currently we run it 4 or 5 times
a year, 12 participants each time. 15 hours of instruction, plus 3 extra
optional hours of "nerd" time. Most people don't volunteer afterwards, but
every session there are a couple that do, and often those couple end up
volunteering a lot, even becoming members of the core group of people
guiding the collective. I think about half of the 14 current members of the
core group got introduced to the collective through our class.
rosy, at Lefty Loosey Bike Collective in Providence, RI, USA
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many of our volunteers started off as patrons. We would ask patrons if
they would be interested in volunteering.
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM Andy Ballentine via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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Hello, all --
At the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg (VA), we would love to expand our
hours, but we're all volunteers giving as much time as we can.  An obvious
path forward is bringing more volunteers on board.  So -- my question: How
do you recruit volunteers?
Many thanks!
Andy Ballentine
Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg
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Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: How do you recruit volunteers?
Following this conversation!
At kickstand we have a "sign up to volunteer" link on our website, we post
on our social media, and word of mouth with our patrons at the shop. We've
recently just signed up to the eventbrite booking platform that sends out
notifications to patrons when we are holding an orientation. It offers a
signup and waitlist option instead of doing everything over email.
We typically have people reaching out to us wanting to get involved vs us
making call outs. Offering a build a bike program also adds an incentive to
getting people involved.
All the best!
Ally Henderson (She/Her)
*Program Coordinator  *
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On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM John via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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We use our 6-session mechanics fundamentals course partly as a way to
invite people to contribute to the shop. It's been a very good way to bring
people in, and helps with both building skill and helping maintain the
culture we are trying to have in the shop. Currently we run it 4 or 5 times
a year, 12 participants each time. 15 hours of instruction, plus 3 extra
optional hours of "nerd" time. Most people don't volunteer afterwards, but
every session there are a couple that do, and often those couple end up
volunteering a lot, even becoming members of the core group of people
guiding the collective. I think about half of the 14 current members of the
core group got introduced to the collective through our class.
rosy, at Lefty Loosey Bike Collective in Providence, RI, USA
On Wed, May 14, 2025, 2:50 PM Vincenzo loco via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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many of our volunteers started off as patrons. We would ask patrons if
they would be interested in volunteering.
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM Andy Ballentine via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
...
Hello, all --
At the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg (VA), we would love to expand our
hours, but we're all volunteers giving as much time as we can.  An obvious
path forward is bringing more volunteers on board.  So -- my question: How
do you recruit volunteers?
Many thanks!
Andy Ballentine
Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg
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