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Growing Your Astronomy Club
Part 3: Cultivating Volunteers

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Effective practices clubs use to develop a culture of service:

  1. Consider Term Limits to prevent burnout and ossification
  2. Implement Effective Recruiting Strategies
    1. Have incumbents prepare a description of their job
    2. Institute a policy that the incumbent recruits his/her own replacement and commits to training the new person
    3. Create the position of Volunteer Coordinator
    4. Recruit one-on-one, preferably face-to-face
  3. Make each job manageable
  4. Give volunteers public recognition for their service to the club

ASP logoSharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse

 

NSF logoThe Sharing the Universe project is funded by the National Science Foundation and is supported by the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) of the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DRL 0638873. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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