I was thinking more this morning about getting folks to volunteer for their 2 hours, and what we can do to encourage folks to volunteer even more than that. We talked last night about rewards for the volunteers with the highest number of hours, but I also want to be fair to folks who maybe have day jobs and aren't able to put in as many hours as say, a stay at home parent.
What if we highligted a 'Volunteer of the Month' on our new website? Not based on the quantity of their work, but the quality of their assistance. For that matter we could do a 'Teacher of the Month' as well. We could do a little profile of them and their child, even let the kids nominate them maybe?
Thoughts?
A place for the current board of the Crestwood Elementary PTO to share ideas.
Maybe a box by the box top box where you drop a card/slip of paper in when you volunteer? That way, they're completely responsible for making sure their hours get logged. (If I were the secretary, I wouldn't want to add slips of volunteer papers to my lengthy list of stuff to do....) and we could draw from there and do a random spotlight on a volunteer. That takes away the "most" or "best" and people could feel appreciated. And you were saying we could put a ribbon next to the ones that do their 2 hours, maybe we could do a bronze, silver, gold type of thing - bronze is 2 hours, silver 5, gold 10? Something like that and then the gold medals get put into a raffle at the end of the year?
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