APPENDIX B: LOCAL STUDY

Online Survey Through Qualtrics

Our team conducted a local study with a total of 122 participants. This local study was a survey using the Qualtrics tool available to all Indiana University students. The survey was accessible to all IU students including but not limited to IU Bloomington, IUPUI, IU South Bend, and IU Northwest. In this local study, we constructed nine questions that we found were most important after our research.

Questions Survey Participants Were Asked

These questions are:

What school is your major affiliated with?
What is your age?
Are you interested in volunteering?
How many times have you volunteered in the past?
What makes want to return to an organization and volunteer again?
What makes you want to volunteer?
What type of volunteering do you prefer to participate in?
What times are you most likely to volunteer?
Would you like to volunteer?
- The final question was similar to a previous question (are you interested in volunteering) to see if any participants were not taking the survey seriously.

The Purpose of Our Survey

We had a variety of demographic data based questions along with research-based questions. We were trying to find what potential volunteers found appealing about non-profit organizations and what made them want to go back to that organization. Our findings are presented below with each question having a bar graph.

Figure 1: School of Medicine, Science, Nursing, and Dentistry Major Survey Participants

Out of 122 survey participants, the School of Medicine, Science, Nursing, and Dentistry make up 46 of the participants.

Figure 2: Average Survey Participant Age Range of 18-24

Out of all the participants in our survey, over 90% of their ages range from 18-24.

Figure 3: Survey Takers Are Interested in Volunteering

The average participant in our survey was interested in volunteering and answered “definitely yes” or “probably yes” when asked about their interest in volunteering.

Figure 4: Almost Half of the Survey Participants Have Volunteered Over 12 Times in the Past

Out of 122 survey participants, 53 have volunteered 12 times or more in the past.

Figure 5: Flexible Scheduling Major Factor in Volunteer Retention

When asked about what makes the survey participants want to return to an organization, the most selected answer was “flexible scheduling” with “structured training” and “swag” close behind.

Figure 6: Service-Oriented Reasons For Volunteering

The highest selected reason for volunteering by survey participants was “love helping/providing service”.

Figure 7: Most Interest in Community Welfare

When survey participants were asked what types of volunteering they were most interested in, they chose “community welfare”.

Figure 8: Late Morning to Evening are Best Times for Volunteer Opportunities

Survey participants overwhelmingly chose from 9:00am-8:00pm as the best time to volunteer.

Figure 9: Participants Highly Engaged in the Survey

By the end of the survey, there were only 2 survey participants lost going from the beginning with 122 survey participants and ending with question 9 having 120 survey participants. Question 9 asked “would you like the volunteer”, mimicking question 3 “are you interested in volunteering”. Question 9 had 13 participants select “definitely not” or “probably not”, while question 3 had 8 participants select either “definitely not” or “probably not”. That is a difference of only 5 from question 3 to 9.

(Number of respondents)