Non-profits Recruit Volunteers with Job Fair & Food Trucks Transcript Your Local Good News, sponsored by Four Seasons. A group of non-profits thinking outside the box to bring in more volunteers. And tonight, Your Local Good News have these charitable organizations put a spin on a job fair. From fresh pizza pies to smoked barbecue, several non-profits hoping the smell of hot food attracted basic volunteers. Trish Speight: “People have a limited amount of time at lunch, so this is the way they can get a quick lunch, but also find out about how they can help their community.” Fourteen non-profits at the Midland Shared Spaces came up with the idea to hold a job fair for volunteers outside their building by ClayDesta. Trish Speight: “Whatever somebody wants to do, I think they can find a good place where they can be helpful.” Just like any job fair, each charity set up a booth, handed out fliers, and were ready to sign up anyone willing to join their organization. Trish Speight: “We all use volunteers; we all want more volunteers. I’ve never heard anyone say ‘We have too many.’" A wide range of non-profits office out of the same building (Booth worker, Heather Faris: “We also offer parent support groups and assembly support groups”) including “Sharing Hands: A Respite Experience,” or “Share.” Heather Faris: “We need volunteers from the community to come out and help take care of these kiddos so their parents can have a little bit of a break.” The Midland Opera Theater operates from the same building. Sharon Humpreys: “Our organization is an entire volunteer organization. There is no paid staff.” Each hoping to recruit that same kind of volunteer. Trish Speight: “Somebody who is passionate about what the mission of the organization is, and they feel like, that they can make a difference.” If you missed the volunteer job fair and the food trucks at the Midland Shared Spaces, we have information on how to become a volunteer on our website, yourbasin.com. ...

1. Non-profits Recruit Volunteers with Job Fair & Food Trucks
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Your Local Good News, sponsored by Four Seasons.
A group of non-profits thinking outside the box to bring in more
volunteers.
And tonight, Your Local Good News have these charitable
organizations put a
spin on a job fair.
From fresh pizza pies to smoked barbecue, several non-profits
hoping the
smell of hot food attracted basic volunteers.
Trish Speight: “People have a limited amount of time at lunch,
so this is the
way they can get a quick lunch, but also find out about how
they can help
their community.”
Fourteen non-profits at the Midland Shared Spaces came up

2. with the idea to
hold a job fair for volunteers outside their building by
ClayDesta.
Trish Speight: “Whatever somebody wants to do, I think they
can find a
good place where they can be helpful.”
Just like any job fair, each charity set up a booth, handed out
fliers, and
were ready to sign up anyone willing to join their organization.
Trish Speight: “We all use volunteers; we all want more
volunteers. I’ve
never heard anyone say ‘We have too many.’"
A wide range of non-profits office out of the same building
(Booth worker,
Heather Faris: “We also offer parent support groups and
assembly support
groups”) including “Sharing Hands: A Respite Experience,” or
“Share.”

3. Heather Faris: “We need volunteers from the community to
come out and
help take care of these kiddos so their parents can have a little
bit of a
break.”
The Midland Opera Theater operates from the same building.
Sharon Humpreys: “Our organization is an entire volunteer
organization.
There is no paid staff.”
Each hoping to recruit that same kind of volunteer.
Trish Speight: “Somebody who is passionate about what the
mission of the
organization is, and they feel like, that they can make a
difference.”
If you missed the volunteer job fair and the food trucks at the
Midland
Shared Spaces, we have information on how to become a
volunteer on our
website, yourbasin.com.