Really appreciate your comments, Sandy! Especially those related to recruiting volunteers to fill refuge needs and not creating refuge needs/projects to satisfy volunteer interests. I think many of us have used that strategy at one time or another, and it’s never pretty. We definitely need to be more strategic about using Service needs drive…[Read more]

Good comments Sandy! Your comment regarding your disagreement with designating a volunteer coordinator at the top visited refuges is a good one. From my field experience, it’s frequently the better-padded refuges that continue to get more, when smaller refuges with high potential, struggling to do even the basic minimum, may rarely get thrown a…[Read more]

Thanks, Sandy. Love your detailed comments! Regarding your last observation about setting up teams to develop some of the strategies, I’m happy to report that our Implementation Team has a few subteams already working on some products. They are working on an on-line “handbook” of materials, a web portal to host the one-stop shopping, and…[Read more]