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Innovative Approach to Volunteer Recruitment

Innovative Approach to Volunteer Recruitment

By: Melissa Lagowski President, Founder and Queen Bee, Big Buzz Idea Group   After months of planning for your upcoming annual event, you find that there’s very little time available to work on the volunteer component of staffing the operations. Without volunteers, the event comes to a screeching halt. Ugh. How are you going to find hundreds of volunteers to fill the schedule? And when are you going to find the TIME to reach out and find these volunteers? It takes hundreds of hours of outreach, communications, sign-up, tracking, scheduling and follow-up while, at the same time, you are juggling...

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