October 1, 2009
Advice for Reaching Out to Male Volunteers
Recruiting and keeping male volunteers is challenging, but creative charity officials have developed many ways to reach out to them. Among them:
Assign specific, finite tasks. "We have found that, as a general group, men tend to like volunteering that has a more concrete task," says Gary Bagley, executive director of New York Cares, an organization that links volunteers and charities. "Less 'will you mentor this child' and more 'help prepare for the SAT.' There's a concrete
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