This is very cool! One thing that was particularly notable for me:
“In 2023, we aim to recruit c50-100 new volunteers”
This is a crazy high number! How many do you guys have currently? And do you do much active recruitment or do volunteers tend to find SoGive organically?
We will run several cohorts/intakes over the year, receiving maybe c10-30 each time, depending on time of year and other factors.
However not all of them will stay. Although we encourage all volunteers to stay for an extended period of time, in practice a substantial number (often around a half) will drop out within a few months. Hence we don’t expect to have more than 50 volunteers at any one time.
The tasks which we give volunteers at the outset are very structured, which means that we can cost efficiently manage volunteers at the outset by getting volunteers to support other volunteers. After the initial phase, they will need more staff support as they do more in-depth research, but we also know that they are able to maintain a steady 1 day per week of volunteering because they have done it for a while, which means it’s worth our while to get them to initiate a long-term project that might take some time to complete.
Our volunteer numbers are fairly low at the moment, because we had a pause on volunteer recruitment. Probably around 10 volunteers (depending on how you count them). However we also have 41 volunteers on the waiting list.
This is very cool! One thing that was particularly notable for me:
“In 2023, we aim to recruit c50-100 new volunteers”
This is a crazy high number! How many do you guys have currently? And do you do much active recruitment or do volunteers tend to find SoGive organically?
Thanks :-)
We will run several cohorts/intakes over the year, receiving maybe c10-30 each time, depending on time of year and other factors.
However not all of them will stay. Although we encourage all volunteers to stay for an extended period of time, in practice a substantial number (often around a half) will drop out within a few months. Hence we don’t expect to have more than 50 volunteers at any one time.
The tasks which we give volunteers at the outset are very structured, which means that we can cost efficiently manage volunteers at the outset by getting volunteers to support other volunteers. After the initial phase, they will need more staff support as they do more in-depth research, but we also know that they are able to maintain a steady 1 day per week of volunteering because they have done it for a while, which means it’s worth our while to get them to initiate a long-term project that might take some time to complete.
Our volunteer numbers are fairly low at the moment, because we had a pause on volunteer recruitment. Probably around 10 volunteers (depending on how you count them). However we also have 41 volunteers on the waiting list.