{"id":206,"date":"2011-02-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/donated-service-or-donated-cash"},"modified":"2017-05-17T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:13:38","slug":"donated-service-or-donated-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/02\/donated-service-or-donated-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Donated service or donated cash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/volunteerstransparent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1186\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/volunteerstransparent-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"graphic by Jayne Cravens representing volunteers\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/volunteerstransparent-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/volunteerstransparent.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>The discussion group for volunteer managers in Ireland and the United Kingdom, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/UKVPMs\/\" target=\"_blank\">UKVPMs<\/a>, brought to my attention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsc.org.uk\/NewsandInformation\/News\/February2011QuickSurveyAnalysis?dm_i=6S7,D0TG,N8DFS,111P6,1\" target=\"_blank\">a question from Directory of Social Change<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Which would most benefit your organisation, a \u00a310,000 cash donation or an equivalent value in volunteers (or volunteer hours)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My answer was this:<\/p>\n<p><em>But what is &#8220;equivalent value in volunteers&#8221;? How many volunteers do I get for \u00a310,000? Is it one pro bono obstetrician, working for a month in my free health care clinic? Is it three Java programmers for my online mentoring program interactive platform? Is it 300 volunteers that show up every weekend for a month to fix up the trails and visitor areas of a large park?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I would most definitely take the cash &#8211; because I could use it to fund the training, management and support needed to involve more volunteers, involve volunteers in new areas, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I wish I had said additionally: if you took \u00a310,000 worth of volunteers (which, as I&#8217;ve pointed out, can mean oh-so-many things), how much extra is it going to cost to involve those additional volunteers? Volunteers are never free!<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I would take the cash &#8211; and put it toward volunteer engagement!<\/p>\n<p>Also see<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forumer.com\/jcravens\/44087\/Volunteers+-+still+not+free!+Even+at+Wikipedia!.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volunteers &#8211; still not free! Even at Wikipedia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/government-support-re-volunteerism-increasing\">Government support re: volunteerism increasing worldwide<\/a> (but not their financial support)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion group for volunteer managers in Ireland and the United Kingdom, UKVPMs, brought to my attention a question from Directory of Social Change: Which would most benefit your organisation, a ?10,000 cash donation or an equivalent value i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[569,568,523,530,532],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-ethical","tag-ethics","tag-value","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-3k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}