Volunteering Potential Lab - Handbook

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VOLUNTEERS MOTIVATION

Understanding volunteer motivation Recognize three psychological areas of needs: achievement, affiliation and power. Volunteers are motivated by specific aspects of these areas, not all volunteers are motivated by the same aspects, leaders should take time to understand what motivates individual volunteers. Picture on the right shows some conclusions of participants of 1st mobility of Volunteering Potential Lab on what motivates volunteers. Below you will find some other conclusions on how to prevent demotivation.

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