{"id":2318,"date":"2016-10-11T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-07-14T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:15:06","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2016\/10\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"That moment when you totally change your mind about volunteer engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wizard\"<\/a>An email I received a few days ago. I’ve changed it a bit to hide the identity of the author:<\/p>\n

I want to thank you, sincerely, for challenging me to think about my understanding of volunteering. You really got me thinking. I had a 3.5 hour\u00a0<\/em>drive ahead of me last night, and the discussions around mandated community service and volunteerism kept rolling around in my mind. In my current role, I haven’t really had to think about court mandated service as volunteering and from personal experience, I don’t know if those mandated, would consider themselves volunteers? I am trying to resolve this, for my own benefit at this stage, and I am finding it quite difficult! I intend on mulling this over a bit more. I trying to consider the benefits\/detriment of either belief…. Challenged? Yes!<\/em><\/p>\n

I love making people uncomfortable about volunteer engagement.<\/strong> I love challenging oh-so-solid notions about who is and isn’t a volunteer, the value of volunteering, and why people volunteer. Why? Because volunteer engagement is so much bigger than just, “We’ve got work to do. Let’s get some good-hearted people to do it for free!”, and I so want this mentality to change!<\/p>\n

The results of this? I’ve made people angry. I’ve made people tear up. Some people have double-downed on their\u00a0oh-so-rigid definitions. But most, while challenged, have also been inspired. They don’t all come to the exact same conclusions as me regarding volunteer engagement and its value, but they definitely broaden their original ideas.<\/p>\n

I remember my big ah ha<\/em> moment regarding volunteer engagement<\/a>, via an event by Triumph motorcycles. And my blog,\u00a0Should the NFL involve volunteers for the Super Bowl?<\/a>, talks further about why I changed my mind about volunteers supporting for-profit settings, in certain situations.<\/p>\n

Want me to challenge your organization?\u00a0Complete details about my consulting services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also see:<\/p>\n

Have you ever changed your mind?<\/a><\/p>\n

Make volunteering transformative, not about # of hours<\/a><\/p>\n

Volunteer manager Fight Club<\/a><\/p>\n

Missed opportunity with #volunteers:<\/a>\u00a0“No one ever asked me for my name. They didn’t have a sign in sheet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An email I received a few days ago. I’ve changed it a bit to hide the identity of the author: I want to thank you, sincerely, for challenging me to think about my understanding of volunteering. You really got me thinking. I had a 3.5 hour\u00a0drive ahead of me last night, and the discussions around […]<\/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":[100,176,568,529,530],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-community","tag-engagement","tag-ethics","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fFJB-change","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}