Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:05:44 -0600 Message-ID: <eeea499a0911040705u6c9c38e7m6bf3e6b990558495@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Tracking and Rewarding Volunteer hours From: Russell Hanson <riverroadrambler@gmail.com>
Dear Local Historians,
I followed with interest the listserve discussion on volunteer hour
tracking. We at the Luck Area Historical Society and Museum would
like to start tracking hours in 2010. To make this work, we want to
get the volunteers to track their own hours and submit them to us.
To get volunteers to track their own hours, they should be rewarded in
some way for the number of hours, a progressive award that makes them
want to reach that goal; i.e.
1-25 hours
2-50
50-100
>100
I am having trouble thinking of names for the groups. It should be
something that is progressive too. I have seen awards named
"President's club", "Unsung Hero" or the money donation names like
"Patron."
Any suggestions for a set of names for historical society /museum
volunteer hours?
It probably should be something like the job classes in that you can
see the progression (junior programmer, programmer, senior programmer,
technical specialist I, II were classes in my computer programming
world)., but it would be nice if it had a touch of history to the
group names too!
I think we might use an annual banquet or meeting of some kind to give
out the awards along with newspaper publicity--like our local hospital
does for its volunteers.
Russ Hanson Luck Area Historical Society and Museum Polk County WI