How To Enlist Volunteers for Your Raffle Fundraiser
How to Find Volunteers for Your Raffle Fundraiser
Let’s hold a raffle fundraiser! It’s so simple. All you need is a wonderful prize(s), some custom printed raffle tickets to sell, and some volunteers to help sell the raffle tickets.
Volunteers are crucial to the success and profitability of any fundraising endeavor, but finding and enlisting them can be tricky.
Good help is hard to find! To find good volunteers, it helps to first think of some of the reasons that people do not step up to the plate so readily. Some of the more common reasons may include:
They weren’t personally asked.
They are busy with life in general and consumed with other obligations
They already have too much on their “volunteer plate”
They feel they don’t have the skills for the job
In order to break down some of these barriers to volunteers joining your cause you need to help them with overcoming some of these misgivings. Some of the steps to take would include:
Defining Roles & Responsibilities – List out in writing descriptions of the tasks required. Include what is expected of the volunteer in fulfilling that role.
Define the Time Requirements – Estimate the amount of time a task will take and that way they can take on a job they foresee having the time for.
Delegate Responsibilities – Structure the volunteer base so that other people have volunteers that are ready to be delegated to.
Post Sign-up Sheets – Keep these in obvious places to make potential volunteers aware of the need for help and to encourage and offer people an easy way to get involved.
Proper planning is the key to getting volunteers to commit to helping out with your raffle fundraising project.
By having a well thought out fundraising campaign, and an organized, informational volunteer recruitment program, you will find plenty of people who can and will do their part to reach your fundraising goals.
