Resource talk:How to organize a student volunteer community

I appreciated this article because of its perspective on volunteers. Too often, organizers can look at volunteers and think "what can they do for me"? This article upends that thought process because it changes the question to "How can I, the organizer, and the volunteer accomplish something together"? There is a reason why that volunteer is spending their time with you/your group. Organizers need to capitalize on that and work collaboratively together. The end of the article reminds organizers to look at every volunteer as a leader. Volunteers can bring a perspective to a project that was not acknowledged yet. They also take the momentum from your project and invest it into their own community. Volunteers are vital and when they are treated as such, the project will have much more success.

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What a great and straightforward article. Organizing a student volunteer community does involve all these different aspects. I believe that getting students interested in becoming part of the community would be the most challenging. After reading the article, I believe organizing such a community successfully is possible. I also think that virtual meetings could be great since most people, especially students, prefer to be virtual as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.