I feel the need to help people in need. I am witnessing so many people dying around me and I see that the only thing that truly matters in life is to leave a better world behind us.
The problem is that I have a full time job and I couldn’t find any organization I could join at night only or in weekends. The only thing I’m doing is donating to charities but I feel it’s not enough.
For information I live in Europe.
I work at a non-profit and it’s a shame. We get a lot of people asking for nights and weekends but it’s hard to coordinate volunteers then because our volunteer office is a 40 hour a week office. they aren’t around after hours to supervise volunteers, so we don’t really have volunteers then.
With that being said, look into general volunteerism clubs, like Rotary. They often are geared towards people who work full time.
Has anyone thought about hiring a part time weekend volunteer supervisor?
If there really is that many people interested, you really couldn’t get a better ROI.
It wouldn’t be enough, unfortunately. The inquiries we get are all over the place. “I would love to do a couple hours on a Tuesday evening” and then “can I come in Saturday during the day?” Not enough to justice an off hours supervisor. It would basically be a full time employee but they’d work a super random schedule.
The sad truth is that retirees tend to be the most reliable volunteers. Just because we get people interested doesn’t mean they stick around/come regularly. And I don’t blame them. I work full time and having to commit to something else after work seems daunting.