Volunteers are the heart and soul of all grassroots organizing. They create momentum, put a human face on a campaign, and are crucial to expanding the base. While recruiting volunteers can often feel like begging for scraps, it's more apt to think of it as offering someone an opportunity to meet whatever need motivates them to volunteer. This Organizing Corner offers tools and resources for building a volunteer infrastructure based on the radical notion that, as Paul Wellstone said, "people get organized because they, too, have a vision".
