Crissy Weeks relies on good volunteers.

Without them, her organization, the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, wouldn’t operate.

But Ms. Weeks has a major complaint about the state of volunteering — namely that too many people do not have the courtesy of showing up to help after they have made a commitment.

Ms. Weeks, in a guest post for the blog Tactical Philanthropy, says that flaky volunteers cause problems for her organization and make her look bad.

She writes of one volunteer who told her that she didn’t show up for a scheduled event because she was not sure if she was needed.

“How confusing is: be at this address at 10am. This same ‘volunteer; then proceeded to tell me that I was not coordinating things very well,” Ms. Weeks writes. “Good Lord! People! Butter my butt and call me a biscuit. I do not know what else to do but pick you up and take you to things myself.”

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