Employee Motivation In Camp Noah

My organization, Camp Noah, is a resilience and preparedness day camp that serves elementary age children in communities that have been impacted by disaster and/or crisis. Our mission is to serve children who have been impacted by a traumatic event and/or experience in their own community by engaging and storytelling. The overall problem that our organization works to solve is the uprooting of normalcy and mental impact that the children are experiencing in the long-term recovery stage after a disaster. We have a curriculum that teaches resilience skills and teams of volunteers that allows children to be children and have fun at the same time learn skills to bounce back.
Our mission is completely supported and run by volunteers, thus, volunteers gain the one-on-one experiences with these children that they are serving. Other potential benefits are leadership skills, ownership of their role and impact, reimbursement for certain roles, housing, and meal. …show more content…
One group of volunteers assist with the operational responsibilities and the other group is the camp volunteers that run the programs. Operational responsibilities include creating, counting, and boxing supplies, inventory count, and other tasks that assist in a smooth shipping process when camps begin.
Each camp has two teams of volunteers that serve as the camp volunteers and local volunteer. Camp volunteers are assigned a certain role/function if there are smaller teams, there are going to be multiple roles that volunteers will have to do. Each role has certain tasks and outcomes. These roles consist of team leader, large group leader, small group leader, arts & craft leader, and rec leader. The local volunteer team also have roles and positions that they are assigned to as well, which includes kitchen & meal leader, registration volunteers, transportation drivers, and local mental health