2. Today’s To Do List
• What is a Project Based Volunteer?
• What types of projects would a Project Based Volunteer do?
• Broadly Workshop Your Idea
• Discuss the Next Steps
3. What is a Project Based Volunteer?
• A temporary volunteer who completes a specific project within a defined
period of time using a specific set of professional skills
• An unpaid contractor
• Possible skills your project may need
• Familiarity with current DOT expectations—Jacob
• Ability to work with publisher and adobe softwares—Jessica
4. What Types of Things Does a PBV Do?
• What types of things does your department need help with?
• How often does this need occur?
• Does this need fit the definition of a Project Based Volunteer?
• A temporary volunteer who completes a specific project within a set
period of time
5. Workshopping Your Idea
• In one sentence, what will your project accomplish?
• Like a personal ad…but not…
• Why does this project need to happen? How will it help the food bank run
more effectively?
• Ex: “By updating, expanding, and strengthening the Chef’s Math course in the
CCK education program, participants will more fluidly move within recipes
and a formal kitchen setting by being able to make relevant, analytical, and
critical decisions in an immediate fashion.”
6. Workshopping Your Idea
• Now that you have the end goal in mind, what skills are necessary to
get you there?
• Top 5-7 skills
• Looking at those skills
• What skills are absolutely non-negotiable?
• What skills can be negotiated?
• What skills are desirable?
7. Workshopping Your Idea
• Now that you have the skill set in mind, what does success look like?
• What is the bare minimum that would allow you to feel like the project was
accomplished?
• What is the highest ideal that would allow you to look at this project and feel
like the project and more was completed?
• What is the middle range?
8. Things to Consider at This Point
• The infamous triangle
• When is it due?
• Is this worth my resources?
• If not, no worries
Good
Fast
Cheap
9. After the Form Submission
• The Volunteer Management Department begins recruitment
• When we find a viable candidate:
• Contact you, set up an interview with you, Volunteer Management, and
the volunteer
• If the interview goes well, we check references
• References check out, we offer the position to the volunteer
• Sit down with the volunteer to sign the Memorandum of Understanding
• Who/What/Where/When
• Check in frequency
• Benchmark establishment
10. After the Project Completion
• Evaluate the whole thing
• Exit interview the Volunteer
• Get feedback from them
• Give feedback to them
• Acknowledge them however you choose
• Job recommendation or reference
