In many affiliates, each committee member assumes a new partner role. This method has advantages:
- Former partners provide effective training for new committee members
- Committee members can network during monthly meetings
- Frustrations and questions can be shared
- Strategies can be mutually agreed upon by the whole committee
General recruiting suggestions:
- Consider Habitat homeowners who have lived in their house for a year or more as partner candidates
- Include the need for partners in your volunteer orientation and recruitment meetings
- Educate affiliate representatives, including public relations committee members, about the need for partners, and develop language for presentations and press releases to highlight the need for partner volunteers
- Solicit volunteers from civic groups, churches, social services groups or student groups
- Advertise
- Talk with volunteers at job site
- Encourage churches, businesses, or other organizations that sponsor a house to support the prospective homeowner by recruiting a member of their own to be a partner
- Use social media
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