Recognition Ideas for Summer Volunteers

For many of us, those students off for summer vacation have volunteered their time to help us out. It's getting on time for them to return to school. It's time to start thinking about the ways that we will thank them for being part of group.

The extra hands during the summer certainly made a difference for us. So we want to do something special to show our appreciation. For our boys who have helped out, we are giving them personalized caps. Each has their name on it and a note of thanks from us. We included our logo in the design.

For the college bound girls, we are giving them a treasure box. Again, personalized with thanks and our logo. For the high school and younger girls who helped, we have chosen a personalized notebook. 

An ice cream social is in order to celebrate the many hours of time they all put in to help us out. All our student volunteers enjoy ice cream so this was a no-brainer for us. For you, there may be other types of fun food that you can make an event out of for your student volunteers who are returning to school.

Because we have had recognition events and given appreciation gifts to our student volunteers for many years, we have gotten some wonderful volunteers returning each year to help us out. I'd say that's an investment in our future success.