Salsa Fundraising: Motivating Your Volunteers
Motivation is one of the keys to a successful fundraiser campaign and the strength to move forward towards a certain goal especially to your sales fundraiser volunteers.
When doing a salsa fundraising campaign or any fundraising campaign, always remember that motivation is very important because it allows your sales volunteers to keep on working at their best in order to reach the goals and objectives of your fundraising program within the limited time indicated in your plans.
Most of the members of your fundraiser team are volunteers, which mean that they are not paid to work for you.
Because of this, you have to give them a good reason why should they work hard for your fundraising campaign in order to keep them motivated for your campaign's success.
You should be capable of motivating your volunteers so that you can keep them working at their best for your goals to be achieved.
One of the best ways to do this is to motivate them based on their age and interest.
For example, make use of prize programs featuring toy prizes for elementary school students.
In this way, they can be motivated to work hard to get the prizes they want.
Set some criteria for the prize program with different levels.
For example, if one sales volunteer gets to sell more than 20 products, he or she can get a board game.
Through setting criteria for your prize program, your volunteers will become more focused on a specific goal and finish every objective one after another.
This is a good way of adding a fun factor while they work.
Having your volunteers get involved in the preparation phase and in other development of your fundraising campaign is another way to motivate them to work hard.
This way, you let your volunteers know that they are vital and important in your fundraising campaign and every suggestion they recommend are always put into consideration.
Orient your members ahead of time so that you can update and give them their tasks before you start your whole fundraising project.
Next, make sure that you consider each member's talents and skills when assigning them to their tasks.
This would give them the idea that you acknowledge their skills and capabilities.
You should give them their tasks evenly to avoid some overworked volunteers during the campaign.
Prepare an attendance sheet so that you can track their working hours.
Never give them their tasks randomly.
This would help avoid delays and other problems that could arise while you are doing your fundraising project.
You should have good communication with your team members since they are also part the whole fundraising campaign.
Tell them everything that they need to know about your fundraiser.
Help them when they are in a certain difficulty with their tasks.
This would show them that you are not just their leader; you are also a part of the team.