Discovering How Informal and Micro-volunteering Can Attract Wider Community Engagement

Discovering How Informal and Micro-volunteering Can Attract Wider Community Engagement

Lutheran Community Care SA/NT (LCC) is an Australian community services organization that utilizes a formal model of volunteering. In response to changing trends in volunteering and the desire of new volunteers for more flexibility, the organization has experimented successfully with more informal types of volunteering. In this feature article for e-Volunteerism, Rachel Friebel, the Volunteer Administrator at LCC, explores the model of “micro-volunteering” – related to but different from other informal volunteering – and the potential it offers organizations, the volunteering sector, and the community at large. Friebel explains why micro-volunteering can attract wider community engagement. 

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Thu, 09/15/2016
This is an interesting article, I'm glad I read it. When our formal volunteers leave because they become too busy I try to get them to be micro-volunteers by working that into our exit survey or my farewell email. I thank them of course but then remind them that they've our best advocates and to please stay connected with us online, share a post, eat at a fundraiser or print a flyer and post. Those small things will keep them connected to us even after they've stopped coming in routinely.

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