Hopefully by now everyone has had a chance to take a look at the Carnival Report Card results. (If not feel free to click the link and view them!)
As you can see… most of the responses were positive and the board has decided to move ahead with a carnival for next year. If you volunteered to serve on one of the committees you will be contacted once a meeting time/date has been established.
One of the primary items of concern noted on the feedback forms were lack of volunteers. Other items to look at include how the prizes were done, types of games, and food choices. This post though is to focus on the volunteer issue.
It is true, we did have a lack of volunteers. Out of over 600 students we only had about 45 parents volunteer to help. That is less then 13% of parents being involved. So, to keep the carnival moving forward we utilized the Brookville football players, cheerleaders, and key club members with mixed results it seems.
Each year we have actually struggled to get enough parent volunteers for the carnival, although this has been the most challenging year by far. This problem seems to occur frequently with events and is always a challenge. Why is that? What do we need to do differently to help resolve encourage more volunteers? On-line sign up? More notice? What suggestions do you have to help your PTO overcome this challenge?
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