Walk-A-Jog: Beating the Bushes For Volunteers

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Tomorrow I take the long march around campus posting volunteer sign-up sheets outside each classroom door. This should work out fine for Kindergarten - 2nd grade because parents with kids in those grades still hang abooot. The 3rd-5th grade parents will never see the sheets, of course, so in a few days I will have to devise another way to reel them in (when the bright idea hits, I'll make sure to let you know).

I'm going to make a prediction: each sheet has space for 22 people to sign up. By the end of next week, the average number of volunteers signed up per sheet will be...3.

I'm not sure exactly how many volunteers we need, but 3 per class ain't it. So in a few weeks I will need to send out a gentle reminder to everyone about the volunteer commitment pledge they signed at the beginning of the year. And I'll ask for support from our trusty brigade of Room Parents. If that's not enough, I'll hit the phones (probably my least favorite thing EVER).

The sheets include these volunteer spots:

1) Event Set-Up
2) Course Safety Monitors
3) Carnival Games
4) Face Painting & Tattoos
5) Food Server
6) Jumpy Monitor
7) Take Down

This doesn't take into account the volunteers needed for the silent auction and raffle or the cakewalk, as the folks in charge of those will do their own recruiting.

If it sounds like I don't quite know what I'm doing: you're right! I've never coordinated the volunteer effort for this event, and I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. Feel free to laugh and point...