
Preparation: Summer 2024
- Obtain fiscal sponsor (Franklin County Community Land Trust) ✅
- Obtain software funding for GivePulse, $2,040 ✅
- Obtain software funding for Airtable (CRM), $500 ✅
- Build out sample GivePulse data for demo ✅
- Create pilot outreach plan ✅
- Prepare public website for outreach. ✅
- Create outreach presentation using sample data ✅
- Prepare platform for volunteer coordinator Community of Practice
Outreach: Fall 2024
- Begin outreach to recruit members (1:1 meetings ✅, webinars, public events) to:
- Adopt software & promote to current volunteers
- Join community of practice,
- Host/co-sponsor quarterly celebration every 2 years
- Share platform & onboarding requirements
- Share volunteer opportunity data and stage on platform
- Prepare public outreach event with a pilot sponsor to host
- Identify host, target days & budget needed
- Identify co-sponsors to cover budget
- Find entertainers for target days, pick day
- Promote: for current and potential volunteers
- Hold First Outreach Event
- Reps from all member orgs (or recognition)
- Reps from funder / sponsor partners (or recognition)
- Potluck, Entertainment, Presentations, Q&A
- Kiosk for volunteer signup & opportunity registration (?)
- Hold Community of Practice Startup
- Schedule meeting with orgs (hybrid)
- Survey for topics
- Find speaker for topics
- Hold startup meeting at partner space
Launch: Winter 2025 (and following)
- Stage new opportunities & push notifications
- Onboard new volunteers to platform
- Support organization use of platform
- Support volunteer use of platform
- Track site placements, attendance, outcomes
- Prepare stats & report for CoP Meeting
- Community of Practice Meeting with Quarterly Plus/Delta
- Quarterly Celebration
- Internal Plus/Delta: Volunteer Circle
- Modifications to platform, process
