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  • Amy Kennedy November 5, 2021 at 10:27am

    Contacting the caregivers of former patients is a good recruiting practice for your volunteer program. My suggestions are to:

    1. Only contact people whose loved one passed more than 12 months ago

    2. Make sure you communicate with your Chaplains and Social Workers to go over your list of people to contact so they can let you know who should or should not be contacted.

    Blessings,

  • Jessie Lee January 8, 2021 at 5:44am

    One idea that I had that worked out nicely was to introduce myself to a local newspaper and ask if I could write an article for them about Hospice Volunteering. They said yes, and I wrote the article and included brief interviews with some of the volunteers. It was published free of charge and we scored some applicants and an amazing volunteer! 

    Another thing that we did was to create ads on Facebook. I joined several local Facebook groups related to our community and posted about our opportunities. 

    Our local United Way has a Volunteer Administrator's network that meets and networks every month. They offer the members a chance to advertise their volunteer opportunities every other week in the local paper for free! 

    Also, talk to your bereavement counselor. Many of our volunteers were family members of hospice patients that we had on services who took advantage of our bereavement services. There is a waiting period after experiencing a death but often those that have experienced our services are more closely bonded to our team and great advocates for hospice.

  • Peter M Abraham July 13, 2016 at 6:40am

    Ditto on http://www.volunteermatch.org/

  • Virginia McCaleb July 11, 2016 at 11:13am

    Volunteer Match is a great program for getting volunteers. Also contact your local Seven Day Adventist Churches, these people are wonderful people who love to volunteer! Good luck!

  • Greg Schneider October 18, 2015 at 9:33pm

    Amanda,

    One of the Hospice Volunteer Association (HVA) resources is the National Hospice Document Repository (NHDR) brought to HCF members as a public service to the hospice community. This repository is the largest collection of documents and articles relating to hospice and end-of-life care in the world. Some of the ways that we hope this repository will assist the community are:

    • providing a venue for hospice volunteer coordinators/managers to share training materials, volunteer program descriptions, volunteer job descriptions, outreach brochures, etc. with their colleagues.
    • to inform hospice volunteer coordinators/managers about resources available to them for making their jobs easier and assisting them in training their volunteers.
    • to share information relating to events, conferences, retreats and workshops that would be of value and interest to the hospice volunteer community.
    • to share articles and other types of information that would be of interest to the hospice community. 

    I recommend that you do a search on articles about recruitment in the NHDR by clicking here and entering "recruit".  You should find some ideas there.

    Greg Schneider
    Founder & President, HVA

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