Every day, people in the U.S. donate their time to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit organizations. But recently, more nonprofits have been struggling to recruit volunteers
Karyn Schwartz, center, of Versailles, Ky., chats with another new volunteer during a training session, Thursday, April 6, 2023, at CASA of Lexington in Lexington, Ky. According to a recent U.S. Census and AmeriCorps survey, formal volunteer participation dropped 7% between 2019 and 2021, the largest decrease the survey has recorded. Karyn Schwartz, center, of Versailles, Ky.
CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children with the Kentucky nonprofit. Since 2020, it has hired someone to focus on recruiting volunteers, added in-person and virtual outreach events and options to complete the required 30-hour training, and printed information on fans to hand out in churches, Melynda Milburn Jamison, its executive director, said. She even visited a men’s-only barbecue to make a quick 10-minute pitch.
The result? In 2022, CASA of Lexington had 62 new volunteers complete training, short of its target of 80. Only two came from the group’s recruitment events, with the rest mostly via word of mouth, Jamison said. “We’ve been able to retain keeping the number of children we serve fairly consistent,” she said, “but we should have been increasing because we’ve taken on new counties and we’ve added additional staff.”Jamison is not alone in her frustration. Her experience reflects the latest twist in a decadeslong trend of declining
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