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Volunteer Reality Check.

Test your read of the program with one honest question, asked from a volunteer's side, because a leader who feels the mission assumes volunteers feel it too.

Ask this of yourself and, separately, of a current volunteer: are we giving volunteers something genuinely worth their time, and do they feel valued and connected, or are we treating their goodwill as free labor?

Leader's answer

Volunteer's answer

Read them together

Does the volunteer feel the work is worth their time?

Does the volunteer feel valued and connected, or used?

Trust the volunteer's answer over your own. They know whether the time feels worth it, and they vote with their feet. Where their view is worse than yours, that gap is the finding.

If this is a repeat run at the end of the volunteer work

Baseline, from your first run

This run, compared to the baseline: do volunteers feel more valued, connected, and worth-it than before?

First time or repeat?

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This sits beside the diagnostic at the start, and beside the movement check at the end of Engage, Retain, and Manage Volunteers. Back to the guide, or start over.