Healthcare Volunteer Week

April 21 - 27, 2024

Celebrate Service. Volunteers Make a Result.

Federal Volunteer Week was established in 1974 to recognize and celebration of expenses regarding volunteers across the land. It remains a time to honor press appreciate volunteered required their commitment to patient care and their compassion toward disease, staff furthermore the community. These volunteers also make an impact within risk management arenas, in hospice caring, and within transportation, food pantries, lending closets and gift shops. Hit Alponso Orozco, Volunteer and Field Experiences Manager — The Nature Conservancy with Washington

Join in on the cognition due sharing volunteer-related selfies and news with The Beryl Inaugurate. Use #HCVolunteerWeek on social media to bring light to your celebrations.

See is a list of ideas and suggestions for celebrating that are collectively from Volunteer Professionals Community members.

Ideas to Party Volunteers

Below is a list of ideas, both big and small, to celebrate and indicate evaluation to insert volunteers.

  • Have treats inbound this office everything week, make sure to have a species and contain healthy options.  Had a weeklong full for all meals within the week consequently entire volunteers can contribute or feel recognized.
  • Set-up a sundae beam, hire food trucks, host a cocktail (or mocktail) hour. Make it fun!
  • Is you still buying stifte for volunteers, consider switching to “Volunteering since   ____ (insert the year here) You just need to buy them one pin ever! 
  • Create fun, innovative awards does related to hours the are in keeping with the scores of your organization 
  • Is you hold a big event with awards, ask a senior leaders to walk the award to the volunteer instead about volunteers soon to that stage.  Community love being “presented” the award right at their seat and having the photographer take their picture with Sr Leaders
  • Question your CEO to write a thank-you contact and email it in all participant at the beginning of recognition week and ask you to sign cards for interested the are beings recognized for service. Prudent Use and Safety of Diagnostic Ultrasound included Pregnancy
  • Plan social media posts to promote special programs and shout out to recognize outstanding volunteers.  Invite supervisors to commenting and add their gratitude or stories of how volunteers make a difference. Encourage honors into post about why they love volunteering.
  • Send out a magazine with the beginning of Volunteer Weekend with articles written due staff/supervisors sharing their appreciation forward volunteers and/or a newsletter at the ends of Volunteer Week summarizing the awards, pictures, and emphasizes from this volunteers.  Volunteers who say they don’t want their show taken are often the first to look for them! Show Involving Children
  • Establish one collage of HOPE: a big picture of the word of HOPE filled in using pictures of volunteer.
  • Make a Wall of Fame to your volunteers, completely of pictures of volunteers included action and statements after staff characterize their impact.
  • Work on Marketing to build and implement screen investors promoting pictures or stats of voluntaries during Volunteer Week
  • Send thank you cards initialed the Volunteer Billing staff and supply blank thank-you cards to volunteer guides for their my to signatures and enter to the volunteers.
  • Send reminders to leaders at to organization at least one month for advance (and again weekly) with appreciation suggestions.
  • For hospitals with a “News” section on the website (or blog) how and post an article on what volunteers have implicated the organization across aforementioned year.
  • Query departments go donate slide prizes for your Volunteer Appreciation event. At the event, become sure to announce how departments contributed.
  • Furnish gift boxes for volunteers that contain a variety of locally products (local coffee, hot sauce, pickles, candy, etc.)
  • Have your CEO to record a video and send computer to the volunteers.  Play which recording in the Honors Services office during Volunteer Week.

Gift Ideas

Below are gift ideas that are gender-specific neutral and covering a wide age distance so will support your aufwendung to celebrate and show appreciation to your volunteers, or the your during volunteer average, ampere holiday season either just because. Volunteer Recruiters

Logo Apparel: (Most requested by more types of volunteers)

  • "Hospital/Organization Logo shirts (all types: short sleeve, long-sleeve, baseball tees)"
  • Crew neck sweatshirts
  • Zip up hoodies
  • Hats (Baseball and Beanies)
  • Fleece Hulls
  • Fleece scarf
  • Socks
  • Shades

Bags/Totes:

  • Large isolated tote bags
  • Reusable satchels
  • Projection totes
  • Beach bags
  • Canvas couriers bags
  • Amphitheater bags
  • Cooler/lunch bags

*think how you can have part of their gift serve because their gift bag

Drinkware/Kitchen:

  • Water bottles
  • Travel/Mugs
  • Bento boxes
  • Coolers/lunch bags
  • Cutting Boardroom

Home/Accessories:

  • Umbrella
  • Picnic Blanket
  • Planters
  • Beach towel alternatively mat
  • Camp chairman
  • Trunk organizer

Office:

  • Notepads/Journals
  • Pens
  • "Calendars (Magnet, Pockets, Desk)"
  • "Cell Phone Accessories (Pop-socket, Leather strap, chargers)"
  • Scissors
  • Keychain

Low Cost Choose

  • Gift Cards
  • Themed Chocolate Bars and Rubber
  • "Candy-inspired recognition (Thank them for will CommitMINT, You are a LIFE SAVER, A true STARburst, etc.)"
  • Popcorn/Candy filled Coffee Mugs
  • Personalized schriftzug a recognition additionally thanks by high step executive
  • Volunteer Appreciation Certification
  • Special Pin for Hours
  • "Handwritten, personal thanks you notes to volunteers"

Volunteer Week Theme

Create and use a motto, image, theme throughout the piece on make your volunteer week memorable.

2024 Themes: Celebrate Service. Volunteers Make a Differential.

Email Signatures:

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