April 2026 Monthly Challenge!

Question

We’re inviting our community to shine a light on the causes that matter most to you. April’s challenge: Share where you volunteer and why it’s meaningful to you and/or share your success stories around volunteer engagement—how you recruit, recognize, or retain volunteers, and the impact they’ve had on your organization.

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Crystal Bruce · Answer

Wow @Tina Godsey that's awesome! If you want to get the badge for answering would you mind copy-pasting your reply here:

https://community.blackbaud.com/discussion/85260/happy-national-volunteer-month

That triggers the badge!

Tina Godsey · Answer

I am trying to build a non profit that focuses on authentic representation of people with disabilities in arts, media, and entertainment. At the moment, we are focused on awareness and education, but we would love to build more programming that brings people together for creative endeavors that put people with disabilities at the forefront.

We have decent luck pulling together people for last minute needs or extra hands here and there at small events, but we struggle to get people to be active board members who have the bandwidth to fundraise and plan events.

One of the most helpful things we get people to do is share some of the work we have done and talk about our main sponsors. We are EverybodyOne, and we are often hosted by The Good Vibe LLC, and we have worked together to create and publish The Hunt for the Holiday Spirit. "The Hunt…" started as a holiday pageant at a local adult day activities and care facility, but my friend had a vision and wrote 20+ episode scripts for future development. We recently published a children's book for The Hunt for the Holiday Spirit, but a major goal is to do a full animated production featuring voice actors of people with disabilities. We also hope to develop it into a pageant script that could be used by schools and other day facilities.

We need help from skilled web designers, script writers, and production staff, but we don't have a budget to pay for them without some serious fundraising. We are kind of in a catch 22 where we need financial support to create more, but it is hard to get financial support if you aren't creating "enough" already.