Animal Welfare Professionals

How do you define an active volunteer? Is there a minimum time requirement per month or year that you consider to make a volunteer "active" at your organization?   

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We request that our volunteers donate 4 hours per month to remain active, but I give them a lot of leeway on this. I let them know that if they miss the requirement for 6 months in a row, they'll become inactive (and be removed from our volunteer forum). 

However, there are several cases where I know when/why someone is behind - for example, we have some college kids who are only here in the summer and a few people who are highly involved in an annual event (but inactive the rest of the year). Since I have to inactivate people manually, I'll just leave them Active if I "know what's going on."

I also email everyone who is being inactivated to let them know what's going on and that they can easily be "re-activated" anytime if they want to get involved again.

How do you define an active volunteer? Is there a minimum time requirement per month or year that you consider to make a volunteer "active" at your organization?   

Thanks!

We request that our volunteers donate 4 hours per month to remain active, but I give them a lot of leeway on this. I let them know that if they miss the requirement for 6 months in a row, they'll become inactive (and be removed from our volunteer forum). 

However, there are several cases where I know when/why someone is behind - for example, we have some college kids who are only here in the summer and a few people who are highly involved in an annual event (but inactive the rest of the year). Since I have to inactivate people manually, I'll just leave them Active if I "know what's going on."

I also email everyone who is being inactivated to let them know what's going on and that they can easily be "re-activated" anytime if they want to get involved again.

How do you define an active volunteer? Is there a minimum time requirement per month or year that you consider to make a volunteer "active" at your organization?   

Thanks!

How do you define an active volunteer? Is there a minimum time requirement per month or year that you consider to make a volunteer "active" at your organization?   

Thanks!

How do you define an active volunteer? Is there a minimum time requirement per month or year that you consider to make a volunteer "active" at your organization?   

Thanks!