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Using volunteers with high-level skills to help nonprofits adapt and grow is consistent with what current research describes about volunteering trends, particularly regarding baby boomers. ...
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Ask the Expert Archive
MAY 2006
Andrea S. Taylor, Ph.D., of Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning, in Philadelphia
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Baby Boomers bring the advantages of experience and education, and are motivated to make a difference. There is tremendous potential to provide solutions to some of our most intractable social needs...
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Focus: Mobilizing Baby Boomers in Service
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For many in the baby boomer generation, retirement is seen as a second or new phase of life; these boomers are likely to change careers, explore new hobbies, and volunteer! This effective practice,...
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Each population of potential volunteers is unique in its approach to volunteering. Program alignment activities and outreach ideas for Millennials, Generation X, baby boomers, and Veterans should all...
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Knowing how to recruit the baby boomers — from motivation to marketing strategy — has been written about and studied in great detail. This effective practice, submitted by Temple University in April...
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Offering opportunities to capture the talents and experience of the baby boomers, and engaging them in the process of solving critical social issues through service, must become high priority goals...
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Baby boomers represent a vast pool of potential volunteers. An eclectic group, one thing they share is that their approach to volunteering is considerably different from that of the previous...
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Recruitment is a critical part of volunteer management, and an ongoing process even after a program is established. Data on baby boomers has already shown that when attempting volunteer outreach, it...
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Research suggests that for baby boomers aged 40 to 55 years, there is sufficient similarity in attitudes and characteristics to allow for the provision of a framework designed to encourage...
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Successful recruitment of older adults requires a well-thought out plan, including consideration of desirable characteristics, motivation, fears, recruitment message, relationship building, and...
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At the University of Maryland, College Park, an adult health and development program employs physical and social activities and health education in an intergenerational context that has a solid...
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When potential volunteers call with an inquiry about joining a program, the opportunity to sign them on should not be lost. The Friends Foster Grandparent Program in Concord, New Hampshire, found...
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One strategy for effective recruitment presentations is making an audience believe you are there to give — not to ask for — something. When "selling" foster grandparent...
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Knowing a program's target market and recruiting with the right "pitch" can add volunteers to a program successfully. This effective practice shares recruitment strategies from the Friends Foster...
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There are 76 million baby boomers who are now beginning to reach retirement age. How can volunteer agencies effectively recruit this population? At the 2002 Senior Corps Conference in Salt Lake City...
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Recognition events such as annual banquets are held periodically by many service organizations to reward those who participate in volunteer service. Finding new ways to make these events fun and...
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Annual recognition banquets and award items such as pins and certificates may not be an effective reward for all volunteers. Knowing other ways to reward volunteers is an important part of program...
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This effective practice based on the 2001 National Service Fellow report by Caroline E. Crocoll, Inspiring Volunteer Development: A Resource Book for Training Senior Volunteers in Intergenerational...
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Service agencies have staffing requirements that need to be communicated to volunteers so they know what opportunities are available. Extrapolating from Robert Kennedy's idea that a small ripple...
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Many young people have stereotypes about seniors that affect how they relate to them. Seniors may have a wealth of information and wisdom for young people to draw on, but stereotypes often get in the...
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Use local businesses, media outlets, and service agencies in your community as resources for targeting potential senior volunteers. This effective practice suggests several ideas for targeted...
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Baby boomers represent the youngest of new recruits that Senior Corps programs are seeking to enlist. This report, Baby Boomers and the New Age of Volunteerism, by National Service Fellow Dawn...
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The world of senior volunteerism is undergoing a transformation of unprecedented proportions driven by the baby boomer generation. Senior Corps program directors and sponsoring agency executives...
