The Volunteer Ops Workbook
Turn your weekly door number into the shifts, sign-ups and asks it takes to fill them, then recruit, onboard and promote volunteers with a worksheet for every step.
Volunteers are a numbers game
Every door you need to knock takes a volunteer shift, and every shift takes more sign-ups than you think. This workbook starts with the math, so you know exactly how many people you need to ask every week.
The Math
Bring your weekly door number from the Field Plan Workbook, or start with the example. You’ll turn it into shifts, sign-ups and asks, plan a petition drive in three weeks, audit your network for the people most likely to say yes, and build a weekly ask plan that tells you where every ask comes from.
The People
A good ask is specific: a task, a place, a day and a time, and why it matters. You’ll write ask cards, keep every volunteer on one master sheet, run a first shift that brings them back, and move your best people up the volunteer ladder into roles with real responsibility. A printable sign-in sheet and a follow-up tracker make sure nobody who raises a hand at an event falls through the cracks.
Keeping Them
The last section keeps your volunteers coming back: recognition, a burnout watch, precinct captains who own their turf, and a dashboard and GOTV surge plan for the weeks when you need everyone at once.
What's included.
Built from the volunteer programs behind local races that filled every shift, with a worked example on every page.
- 27 pages, with a worked example and room for your own numbers on every worksheet
- Your weekly volunteer math: doors to shifts to sign-ups to the asks it takes to get them
- A network audit, a weekly ask plan and ask cards with the confirm and reminder steps
- A printable master volunteer sheet and an event and volunteer sign-in sheet
- The volunteer ladder, precinct captains, a volunteer dashboard and a GOTV surge plan
The Volunteer Ops Workbook
Get the workbook that turns the people who say yes into the volunteers who run your campaign.