Volunteer Demo

Demonstration of Volunteer Committment

Purpose

The purpose of this wiki is to show a more holistic interpretation to volunteering in terms of people's needs and contraints.

In addition to this diagram, each person should indicate their short-term and long-term goals and needs for volunteering. This will create a database or resource to help analyse and match-up work, etc. By being transparent, these resources would provide clear, current, and relevant evidence of volunteer contribution. It would also serve as a form of measurement to help distributed the load.

In my opinion, the church can't thrive without this type of resource to allow the congregation full access to "bust myths", misconceptions or wrong assumptions. I believe that, instead of delicately tip-toeing around the subject, the facts should be laid-out for everyone to see. A "reality-check" of a stewardship campaign so to speak (or "tough love" if I could be so bold!).

Areas Where Murray is Concerned

As for myself, I am still wrestling with providing fee-based courses at Westminster due to cost/benefit analysis. Curriculum design is an IMMENSE time-related activity. I am literally "straddling the fence" wondering whether or not to risk the huge amounts of time and effort in developing curriculum (especially if there are not sufficient and continued enrolment of students to pay as a return on my time investment). Remember: teaching part-time at other community college is more convenient for the instructor since the curriculum has already been developed and they have their own marketing department to bring in the students. The teacher saying is $0.17 / hour to teach the course for the first time. Developping a curriculum drops that down to $0.01 / hour, and a constant worry about the return on investment.

Another labour-intensive endeavour is technical documentation. For example, here is a WIKI that I have been authoring for quite some time to provide technical details for the setup of the computer lab: [ http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Computer_Lab_Manual ]

I could easily see myself absorbed in this documentation indefinitely (not to mention documentation for training staff), and thus the need for volunteers to allow me to focus on this activity. This is why I feel that I simply don't have any time to volunteer for "other things" like ushering or coffee-time. I like this to be an informational resource that someone could view first, prior to asking... I don't know if it relates to other people, but anything technical in nature is usually not seen by others without some sort of resource such as this...

Mind Map Of Murray's Volunteer Work vs. Spare Time Activities

Murray Saul's Voluntary Duties and Spare Time Proposed Activities