As our program has grown, so has the amount of work we need to do to deliver on our promise.

Thankfully, more people have started reaching out to help us, and we have identified a list of questions that can help us figure out if a volunteer role at AFP might be a good fit.

If you choose to apply to be an AFP volunteer, we will ask you to answer the questions listed in this blog. However, before you start going through these questions, please complete these steps…

1. Browse through our website to understand who we are, who we serve and how we serve
2. Watch our most recent program overview video
3. Read the lessons we have learned about building our team of volunteers.
4. Read our volunteer working agreement
5. Read our volunteer expectations

If this opportunity still resonates, please send us answers to these questions with your application…

1. Motivation To Volunteer For AFP
   1. Why do you want to volunteer for AFP? Why does this opportunity matter to you?
   2. Which of the target AFP beneficiaries do you care about the most? Why?
   3. What outcomes do you want to create for them as a result of volunteering?
   4. How will you know that you are helping us create these outcomes?
2. Qualifications & Focus:
   1. What super powers can help you succeed as an AFP volunteer?
   2. Track Record:
      1. Where have you applied your super-powers to create positive impact?
      2. How did you do it?
      3. What positive impact did you create?
      4. How do you know?
   3. In which area would you like to help as a volunteer? How would you like to help? Please be as specific as you can.
3. Capacity & Barriers:
   1. On an average, how much time are you willing to put into volunteering each week?
   2. On an average, how many monthly AFP Board meetings do you think you might be able to attend each quarter?
   3. How will you free up the time, space and energy needed to volunteer for AFP? What will you say “no” to so that you can say “yes” to volunteering for AFP?
   4. Some of our previous volunteers could not keep their promises to AFP because of their other commitments. What barriers might stop you from succeeding as an AFP volunteer?
   5. How will you manage these barriers?
4. Expectations & Accountability:
   1. What principles and values would you like to see honored as you are volunteering with AFP?
   2. How do your principles and values compare / contrast with our working agreement?
   3. What do you need from your colleagues on the AFP Board and fellow volunteers so you succeed as an AFP volunteer? How will you hold them accountable?
   4. What are you promising to provide as an AFP volunteer? How would you like to be held accountable?
   5. How do you prefer to have difficult conversations that may arise as part of your volunteering?
   6. How will we know if this relationship is a good fit?
   7. If we decide that the relationship is not a good fit, how would you like to bring it to a close?
5. What else would you like us to know so we can work well together?