Erica,
There are LOTS of good resources for understanding WHY people volunteer.
This is the key to effectively recruiting dependable, long-term docents.
(I was a 10-year docent.) One way to start is to survey your current
docents on why they volunteer at your establishment.  The Independent
Sector website also provides a survey of volunteering in America.  I have
additional materials I could forward if you can contact me off list.  This
is an area of particular interest to me, so I have lots of links and some
things to fax.

Lori Allen
Graduate Student, History and Museum Studies
University of Missouri - St. Louis

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
                                  - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Historian


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