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How do you handle entitlement of more tenured and long term volunteers?

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Some volunteers want to come in a change the entire structure/mandate of the organization. It can be hard to tell them "no" all the time and squash their ideas

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How do smaller museums that lack professional eval staff and depend on consultants integrate volunteers into the external eval's scop to expand data collection capacity and reduce consultation costs?

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A consistent user friendly communication platform. 

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A consistent user friendly communication platform. 

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Getting volunteers to implement what they learn in trainings

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Getting volunteers to implement what they learn in trainings

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limited access to resources. Our volunteers can't use our closed network which is very limiting

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limited access to resources. Our volunteers can't use our closed network which is very limiting

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Volunteers who have an false or skewed image of what their role is

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The inconsistent need of volunteers in this role is hard - keeping them engaged between evaluation projects is tough.

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The inconsistent need of volunteers in this role is hard - keeping them engaged between evaluation projects is tough.

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Staff not willing to let go of duties/delegate to volunteers

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Staff not willing to let go of duties/delegate to volunteers

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We have over 200+ volunteers but NONE of them are interested in doing surveys.

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Volunteers wanting to do what we have set aside for paid staff, not wanting to get into that thin line

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Creating a sense of community amongst people volunteering on their own

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Staff reluctant to spend time training volunteers and worry about volunteer turnover.

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We have many applicants who don't follow through with the application process.

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Yes! Training consistency

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Training volunteers who leave after training

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Training and consistency in how data is collected

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Training and consistency in how data is collected

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Volunteer issues with past employees

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We do not have a specific role focused on volunteer recruitment and nurturing at this point. Looking for tips on how to find capacity to support volunteer recruitment and management through partners/University/ other stats orgs

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Longtime volunteers who were originally placed in the wrong position

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Longtime volunteers who were originally placed in the wrong position

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Getting people interested in volunteering and keeping them here. I have had some issues getting people to take the commitment seriously.

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Lots of volunteers come a few times, get trained, then leave or become unreliable.

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"Competing" with other departments that teach science rather than in the department asking visitors for information

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Cross team coordination

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engaging volunteers with specific sets of skills

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engaging volunteers with specific sets of skills

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This role is not a "sexy" role in our organization - when there are volunteers cleaning dinosaur fossils, it's hard to recruit folks to do evaluation work.

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This role is not a "sexy" role in our organization - when there are volunteers cleaning dinosaur fossils, it's hard to recruit folks to do evaluation work.

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Our volunteers are required to pay a fee, which is prohibitive for some of our applicants.

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Staff are reluctant to work with volunteers because of time spent training and volunteer turnover.

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My position is new to my institution, so I don't think volunteers are even aware that evaluation is an option.

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Recruiting volunteers for weekday coverage - not just weekends.  We've expanded weekend opportunities because of demand in our area but we are really in need of enough weekday volunteers for basic coverage.

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How do you attract younger generations?

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volunteers interested in gaining experience vs staff who need volunteers with certain skills

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Image/reputation of our science center as a whole - it's only for kids

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What qualities make for a great team member?

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What are the hurdles to working with volunteers?