Internal
and External Recruitment
Internal:
Internal
are families and friends of residents who
may wish to volunteer. Very important that
you list volunteer positions in your facility
paper, posters and announcements regarding
these positions.
External:
1.
Know your town resources. Obtain from the
local library a list of clubs and contact
person for your town and surrounding areas.
(10 mile radius) This would include a list
of Lyons, Jaycees, Kwanis, Womens Groups,
youth Groups, etc. Write or call each club.
Introduce yourself and explain your needs.
Junior Women's Clubs: Have them come for Halloween Parades, Caroling, Plant
Flowers and a host of other ways to visit with their young children,
including Mommy & Me for the mothers with infants.
2. Office on Aging- find out what resources they have for recruitment
3.
Local Volunteer Organizations and Probation
Departments (Community Service only). It
is better to write to them and let them
know the needs. Follow up with a phone call.
4.
Local Paper- run ads for volunteers. Be
specific.
5.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: In July find
out who is in charge of the troops for your
town. Ask if you can speak at the first
meeting about your facility and the need
for their involvement. Bring handouts about
your facility, ideas for the visits and
your business card.
6.
4H Clubs: Again, find out when the first
meeting will be and speak before the leaders.
Puppy Clubs, Rabbit Clubs, Sewing Clubs
are great groups to invite on a monthly
basis. Offer your facility as a meeting
place for their monthly meetings.
7.
Churches: Write a letter to the church secretary
to run in the weekly bulletin asking for
volunteers.
Also, write a separate letter to the Youth Pastor asking for
involvement.
Ask the church to adopt your facility. Great for Bingo Callers,
Religious Services, Friendly 1-1 Visitors, Gospel Hour, Sing a longs.
Hebrew Schools-
Pastoral Colleges
Rabbinical Schools
Good Deeds Day
8. Schools
Public: Write a letter in the early part of summer to the Superintendent
of schools for the town. Ask permission for a form letter to go in the 1st
bulletin in September. Form a new club for children and their pets. The kids
could come weekly or once a month.
Start
an adopt a grandparent program.
Make a Difference Day- Sign up with schools at the beginning of the School
year.
Private: Contact
the principal in the summer and arrange
a meeting. For high school students suggest
ways that they could help in the evening
and on the weekends. They are great at collecting
Christmas gifts.
Pen
Pals, Tutoring and mentoring.
For elementary and junior high students, adopt a grandparent program, pet
therapy visits and service projects.
9. Phone Book: Volunteers come in all types of visits. Contact all business
that offer lessons to children and arrange for recitals and show cases.
Call all organizations that may be able to offer speakers for free.
Contact
Red Cross, Salvation Army who have great
speakers as well as visits at Holiday Time.
10.
Companies- AT&T asks you to fax your
request for volunteer and service projects.
AT&T offers one paid volunteer day to
their staff. AT&T Cares and AT& T
Pioneers
800
238 0649
You
can put as many requests in as you would
like. One great idea is to ask for a lot
of volunteers to put up all your Christmas
trees and decorate the building with your
supplies. We know how much work that is!
Large
companies such as Insurance Companies offer
the same thing.
11.
Paper- In your small local paper, place
an ad for volunteers. This will usually
run for free. In the main paper, find out
when the articles run for volunteers and
place your facility in the column.
12.
Have a table at the mall once a year for
volunteer recruitment
13.
Hold a volunteer job fair. Advertise all
the positions you have.
14.
Post all your openings with the different
volunteer placement services on the Internet
15.
Disability- look for service organizations
that will place volunteers at your facility.
Usually they will come with a job coach
the first couple of times.
16.
Senior Citizens Center: Place bulletins
for seniors to visit.
17.
Look for opportunities for your residents
to communicate via the Internet
Very important that you have Volunteer Applications at the front desk that
look clean and professional. Always get back to every applicant immediately.
Ways
to Keep Your Volunteer Force!
You want it to grow.
NJAVA -
New Jersey Association for Volunteer Administration
