Cynthiana Rotary
Club
Volunteerism Fair
Held April 19,
2012
In January 2012 a proposal to hold a Volunteerism Fair (VF)
was made to our Club Board. The Board
gave approval for the effort. The Event Purpose was to
instill a volunteer mindset for our young people that will follow them for the
rest of their lives. During the Fair
Harrison County High School students would visit the booths and be given the
opportunity to learn more about volunteering for local organizations.
Over the next couple of months our VF Committee met to work
out the details: contacting
organizations to determine interest, talking with school officials, etc. We identified 50+ organizations and individually contacted
each to determine their interest in participating. After determining that we would have at least
20 to attend we sent a formal invitation to be a part of the effort. The reasons organizations did not participate included: we don’t use student volunteers (safety
issues or hasn’t worked out before) and too busy with other projects.
The event was held on April 19, 2012. During the day approximately 1,000 Harrison
County High School students visited the booths set up by 22 organizations (we
had 1 no show). There were over 70
people with the organizations and this total includes 13 Rotarians who helped
during the event. Several organizations
had people working in shifts.
The verbal feedback from the students, teachers, and
organization participants was very positive.
At least 2 organizations had over 150 students to sign up! Each person was asked to fill out a Feedback Form (copy
attached). By the end of the day we had
36 forms submitted and the rating of the effort on a scale of 1-10 (10 being
the highest) was a solid 9.00.
The Cynthiana Rotary Club had a booth and we had 55 students
to sign up to volunteer to help us with our Fab 4th project. We will contact these students later to
verify their availability and also we will consider the possibility of
utilizing this list to start an Interact Program at the School.
Prior to the event we sent out a Press Release to our local
newspaper and Lexington TV stations.
While this did not generate TV coverage we will have pictures and a
story in the Cynthiana Democrat.
Please contact Doug Price if you want additional
information.
Doug Price
400 Browning Way
Cynthiana, KY 41031
859-234-4318
dprice@kih.net
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