"Your 50 hryvnias are not in vain." 10 Volunteer Commandments, or How to Optimally Organize a Work Volunteer Organization during the War
I want to share insights and lessons that our team has got during this time. It should be noted at once that the construction of a volunteer organization is similar to business design: the same processes, the same hierarchy, the same reporting. The only difference is the final purpose of the first and second - it is different.
Video of the day not everyone can take weapons and protect their country from the enemy on the front line, but anyone can become part of the rear that will give strength and strength to our soldiers. When I and my future partners realized that there would be no quick victory and we need to act, we have analyzed our competencies, skills and opportunities and decided - we will help.
After all, we can turn our business spices into something large-scale that will help people both during the war and after. 1. The set goals are reached by the one who takes the initiative in their own hands and the Ukrainians joke that they have not even started to change dollars, and will have long. But the real situation is such that resources are not endless, and it is becoming more difficult. The collection market was cut by 35-40%, and this is absolutely normal.
In winter, it will fall even more, but in the spring the situation will normalize. After each subsequent crime that the Russian Federation will commit on our land, the Ukrainians will have a desire to throw a little money for the Armed Forces and volunteering again and again. People do not need to be stimulated, they are already motivated. Only initiatives and actions are needed. 2.
Appreciate your work and do not devalue yourself - not God and cannot change everything on your own, but "from the amount infinitely small arises infinitely great. " Here you need to understand one thing - every new collection on the drone will not be the last. Such things are a derivative material for the military. A day, two, maximum a week - and they burn, they need to be bought again and again.
But at the same time, every successful collection is probably saved lives and successfully completed tasks. Therefore, rest assured that your 50 hryvnias are not in vain. Every goal achieved: a bulletproof vest, a helmet, or a pair of shoes - all this is important. 3. Work in favor of others, but not at the expense of volunteering - it is not ordinary work from 9 to 18, you do not work on a schedule, you have a clear plan of tasks that you perform as efficiently and efficiently as possible.
You can wake up at 11 and work until 4 am, and you can wake up at 8 and finish it by 13:00 to have time for other cases. But it turns out that I wake up early and work until the night, there is no weekend - neither in me nor in the team, with none of us they need. We can all do nothing together, but it happens once or twice a month. It is just uninteresting to us at this stage. You should work as much as your body allows you. 4.
Work well on the image and the Foundation will be happiness as in any business, you have to take care of the image. Population and recognition are impossible without pages on social networks. Here you need to know that each site should have different content. Telegram is an information god - where you publish news, funds, updates, closed global tasks, announcements. Instagram you use for reporting and live content.
Tiktok is not monetized yet, but is well sufficient for the promotion and development of a personal brand. 5. Setting up partnerships and connections is the key to your development by one of the important element of volunteering is partnership. We are now actively working with other charitable foundations. At this stage, only humanitarian aid is received at this stage - it is not finance, but goods for people in the direction of Varta - people.
We will now connect new sources of funding in order to provide the team. It is cooperation with private investment and business. The latter will cover salaries to our employees, and we will make zoom. This is profitable: let's say $ 10,000 in business will be converted from people of $ 100,000. In this way, more resources are used. We are now getting a lot of humanitarian aid from Europe. In Ukraine, buy shoes, bulletproof vests, helmets - expensive and inappropriate.
Therefore, it is important to establish good links with European partners. 6. We choose the path of development and improvement from the very beginning of the Hanty people who have cases and skewers that will definitely come in handy. Everything is with business, but higher risks, so we do not teach anyone from scratch. Because, firstly, it does not have time, and secondly, it requires a lot of resources. However, continuous training, constant improvement and pumping yourself are also important.
If you are good in your business, you have the skills and desire to become part of a volunteer community - you will find your place in any of them. 7. Do not forget to take care of yourself sometimes it seems that volunteers do not have their own lives, they constantly think about someone and forget about their own interests. I have given my business to my business openly, another type of activity was added to my business.
Volunteering is a rather interesting task, the main thing is to have some source of income that will provide you with life. And this second part of your life should also develop. Then the motivation will work. 8. Concentrate on your task and do not scatter the resource on all in a row our fund has switched to a more structured purchase scheme - now we have focused on purchasing drones, cars and other equipment.
The humanitarian aid that comes to us is handed over to people in the frontline areas that do not reach different help. We no longer buy different small things such as bulletproof vests, gloves and socks. Varta does not recruit more requests because there is no way to cover them. It is better to do the job in your sector qualitatively than to try to do everything and not to keep up with anything. 9.
Learn to ask questions to people who are asked even during the war, some people have their own interests and try to make money. Our fund is already working with proven contacts and no fraud and attempts to earn in the war we have not met. But if you start, you should check those with whom you plan to cooperate, ask, clarify, ask for documents and photos. 10. Be proud that you have been a volunteer from your childhood that you have not been able to talk about good deeds, it is good.
But this is not quite right, you need to look for the golden mean. The fact is that without great publicity, there would be no great meeting in the shelter and such success in the back of the alive. If they did not report if they were not talked about, nothing would be. So my advice is to keep the fund as you do business. Tell and show the results of your work competently.