Volunteers: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them

Don’t just make work for volunteers
OK, here’s a story of volunteer engagement gone wrong. I remember volunteering to clean up a park with my Girl Scouts troop in third grade. The park was clean. We got there, and we had nothing to do.

The Girl Scouts troop leader dumped over a trash can and made us pick it up. Then we got our trash cleanup badges.