Original Article by Walden University; ScholarWorks, cited below

Summary by Simply the Basics

While volunteers are sometimes considered the backbone or critical stakeholders for a nonprofit in ensuring that an organization’s mission and programs are successful, recruiting the right volunteers comes with its own challenges. This study, written by Walden University, notes the most challenging problems being the work itself a volunteer is asked to do may be comparable to those of paid staff, the time it takes to train a volunteer can be incredibly costly considering volunteers have high turn over, and the need for organizations to have better recruiting strategies. The purpose of this study is to explore three different volunteer recruiting strategies by nonprofit leaders that was done in the state of Colorado.

Delahaye, Marsha. “Strategies for Recruiting Volunteers in the Nonprofifit Sector.” Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies, Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Collection at ScholarWorks, 2020, https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11205&context=dissertations.