Success StoryVolunteer Recruitment



Volunteer Recruitment

Author: Nicole Gwishiri

Planning Unit: Bath County CES

Major Program: Empowering Community Leaders (general)

Plan of Work: Increase capacity of Extension and community leaders, recruit new volunteers

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Bath County Extension, like many extension programs in the state of Kentucky, rely on volunteers to aid in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs. From the previous year's efforts, the Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent continued to generate, educate, maintain, and sustain the leaders. Focus was on the Bath County Extension Homemaker program. The Homemakers have a strong connection to the community of Bath County, however, many believe this organization is the same organization from 90 years ago. This year the focus was to re-energize their commitment to the organization, the community, and to themselves. In doing so, Bath County Homemakers have recruited 30 more members, and 20 of those members are actively involved in volunteering through the Extension Service. They have created three new programs per month, have an average attendance of 25 participants per session, and have gathered several hundreds of dollars in donations that go to supporting their community programs.






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