Animal Welfare Professionals

We are looking for unique and fun ideas for a quarterly volunteer appreciation meeting, as a thank you for all the work that our volunteers do for us and the animals we serve.  Some ideas have been a local bowling alley,  and coffee and donuts at the shelter, but none of these ideas are that inspiring.  We would love to hear what you do for your volunteers as a thank you for your time.  

Hey Marianne!

I LOVE looking for creative new ideas on how to recognize volunteers. We did a few years back, a celebration for hitting 20,000 hours of volunteer service within a year, so we held a Roaring 20's party. Volunteers & staff all came dressed up in 20's garb which was fun, but the more notable part, was that we had specific certificates printed for volunteers that were unique to them. This could take some time if you were doing it for each & every volunteer, so I also recommend maybe doing certificates for little groups. Such as we have a team that always comes in on holidays to walk our pups so we made their group all the same certificate of "Holiday Heroes". Here are some of the other certificates we made, again, just so volunteers feel seen & appreciated on an individual level:

• Perfect Pawtner
• Director's Award
• Shelter Superhero
• Behind the Scenes Superstar
• The Cat's Meow
• Data Darling (for our computer vols)
• Faithful Companion (for our tenured vols)
• Medical Maven
• New Best Friend (for our less than 1 yr in role)
• On the Spot
• Outta This World (for our vols who find creative ways to fundraise)
• Pawtrait Perfector
• Small & Meowty Team
• Surgical Sweetie
• Trail Wagger

It costs super minimal to have them printed on color if you send them to like a Staples. We also had a few depending on the award that we ordered frames for from Amazon for very low cost. 

Hope that helps!

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Sarah Sukhram
Vol. & Foster Coordinator
Pasco County Animal Services
Land O' Lakes, FL
https://www.pascocountyfl.net/408/Animal-Services

Original Message:
Sent: 12-05-2023 05:18 PM
From: Marianne Pestana
Subject: Volunteer Appreciation Ideas

We are looking for unique and fun ideas for a quarterly volunteer appreciation meeting, as a thank you for all the work that our volunteers do for us and the animals we serve.  Some ideas have been a local bowling alley,  and coffee and donuts at the shelter, but none of these ideas are that inspiring.  We would love to hear what you do for your volunteers as a thank you for your time.  

#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

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Marianne Pestana
Development Manager
Paws Humane, Inc.
Columbus GA
303-945-6195
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Hey Marianne!

I LOVE looking for creative new ideas on how to recognize volunteers. We did a few years back, a celebration for hitting 20,000 hours of volunteer service within a year, so we held a Roaring 20's party. Volunteers & staff all came dressed up in 20's garb which was fun, but the more notable part, was that we had specific certificates printed for volunteers that were unique to them. This could take some time if you were doing it for each & every volunteer, so I also recommend maybe doing certificates for little groups. Such as we have a team that always comes in on holidays to walk our pups so we made their group all the same certificate of "Holiday Heroes". Here are some of the other certificates we made, again, just so volunteers feel seen & appreciated on an individual level:

• Perfect Pawtner
• Director's Award
• Shelter Superhero
• Behind the Scenes Superstar
• The Cat's Meow
• Data Darling (for our computer vols)
• Faithful Companion (for our tenured vols)
• Medical Maven
• New Best Friend (for our less than 1 yr in role)
• On the Spot
• Outta This World (for our vols who find creative ways to fundraise)
• Pawtrait Perfector
• Small & Meowty Team
• Surgical Sweetie
• Trail Wagger

It costs super minimal to have them printed on color if you send them to like a Staples. We also had a few depending on the award that we ordered frames for from Amazon for very low cost. 

Hope that helps!

We are looking for unique and fun ideas for a quarterly volunteer appreciation meeting, as a thank you for all the work that our volunteers do for us and the animals we serve.  Some ideas have been a local bowling alley,  and coffee and donuts at the shelter, but none of these ideas are that inspiring.  We would love to hear what you do for your volunteers as a thank you for your time.  

We are looking for unique and fun ideas for a quarterly volunteer appreciation meeting, as a thank you for all the work that our volunteers do for us and the animals we serve.  Some ideas have been a local bowling alley,  and coffee and donuts at the shelter, but none of these ideas are that inspiring.  We would love to hear what you do for your volunteers as a thank you for your time.  

Hi Marianne, 

There may be some good ideas in past threads about volunteer or foster appreciation ideas. If you search "volunteer appreciation" you can check them out. Best of luck to you!

We are looking for unique and fun ideas for a quarterly volunteer appreciation meeting, as a thank you for all the work that our volunteers do for us and the animals we serve.  Some ideas have been a local bowling alley,  and coffee and donuts at the shelter, but none of these ideas are that inspiring.  We would love to hear what you do for your volunteers as a thank you for your time.