http://www.asmallchange.net/getting-settled-in/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-settled-in Making Sense of Fundraising Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.asmallchange.net/getting-settled-in/#comment-651 Janice Chan Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:29:59 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=718#comment-651 Yes! Sometimes volunteers and donors have been with the organization longer than a lot of the staff, and while they may not know all the ins and outs of how things work internally, they can still be good resources (and offer different perspectives)--especially when whoever ran xyz last year is no longer with the organization. Volunteers especially get frustrated when they've been working at an event/program for years and a brand new staff member comes in and decides to change things without asking the volunteers, as if their experience and knowledge doesn't count because they aren't paid staff. Every volunteer is different and has slightly different motivations, but if you treat them more like staff and less like "just some volunteer," that tends to go a long way. Yes! Sometimes volunteers and donors have been with the organization longer than a lot of the staff, and while they may not know all the ins and outs of how things work internally, they can still be good resources (and offer different perspectives)–especially when whoever ran xyz last year is no longer with the organization. Volunteers especially get frustrated when they’ve been working at an event/program for years and a brand new staff member comes in and decides to change things without asking the volunteers, as if their experience and knowledge doesn’t count because they aren’t paid staff. Every volunteer is different and has slightly different motivations, but if you treat them more like staff and less like “just some volunteer,” that tends to go a long way.

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