From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:35:20 -0600 Subject: RE: Tracking and Rewarding Volunteer hours Message-ID: <488E289A5C909049B0E55F6B651B5B350179812D7A4A@MEWMAD0PC01G02.accounts.wistate.us>
Hi Russ,
I looked around on the web and didn't really see any great examples of cate
gory names - most of them are pretty traditional, as you noticed.
Maybe you could brainstorm some ideas using historical themes from the Luck
area (logging, immigration, Duncan, early settlers, etc.) and come up with
some category names? Or maybe lakes or attractions in the area? That would
help give a local flavor to the idea.
Many organizations use an hour system and then award pins or other gifts ba
sed on the number of hours volunteered. A special gift or recognition is re
served for the top category and awarded at an annual meeting or awards banq
uet.
Good luck!
Janet
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region, Wisconsin Historical Socie
ty
c/o Department of History, UW-Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue Eau Claire WI 54701
Voice: 715-836-2250
Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846
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Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:05 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Tracking and Rewarding Volunteer hours
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