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Showing posts with label volunteer. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Setting Up the Retail Environment
In an earlier chapter, The Crazy Reality of a Creative Reuse Center, we touched on the unconventional nature of the retail environment in a creative reuse center. While not nearly as easy to organize as a grocery store, or even a big box craft store, you’ll want your store to be shoppable and navigable as possible. Adding some structure and policies to the following categories can certainly help:
- Flow
- Sorting and Packaging
- Pricing
- Sections
- Signage
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Getting Started - Your Infrastructure
The opposite of infrastructure is chaos. Setting up a creative reuse center is unpredictable enough by virtue of dealing with donated materials. Having systems in place will save your hide when you’re up to your ears in fabric, bottle tops, paper, and crayons.
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While there are many elements to building capacity in your creative reuse center, we’ll stick to the basics:
· Decision making
· Staff/Volunteers
· Programs
· Administrative systems
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Solid Gold - Your Volunteer Team
That’s what volunteers are to an organization – solid gold. Volunteers can play a variety of roles at your creative reuse center. Depending upon your needs and the volunteers’ skill sets and interests, you can have many of your essential functions covered. Volunteers make it possible to accomplish your mission with little or no initial funding. And, when you’re ready to hire – you’ll have a pool of super stars to choose from that already know the organization, are committed to the mission, and are known to you.
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