Volunteer Spotlight: Tracee Wade - My Child's Closet, Inc., Greenville, SC
My Child’s Closet, Inc. is a semi-annual consignment sale featuring an enormous selection of both new and gently used upscale children’s clothing, toys, equipment, furniture, and much more. They use VolunteerSpot's volunteer scheduling software to organize the amazing volunteers who help out during this huge semi-annual sale.
Today, our spotlight shines on Tracee Wade, who uses VolunteerSpot to coordinate it's many volunteers who help out with their sales.
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Please tell us about your organization and your volunteer needs.
We are a seasonal children's consignment sale, meaning we only operate twice a year with a huge warehouse sale every fall and every spring. We offer new and gently used children's items such as clothes, toys, furniture, baby equipment, shoes, books, and dvds at deeply discounted prices. We even work with several stores in our local area selling their new items from the previous season at amazing prices! All of this happens in the course of one week so it takes alot of volunteer help to get the items inspected (we only accept clothing and toys in excellent condition), organized, helping on the sales floor, checking out customers and then organizing what didn't sell back out and cleaning everything up. We have a list of about 250 volunteers and end up with about 75 amazing helpers each sale.
How did you get started as a volunteer leader?
When I took over the sale 5 years ago, I started working to organize volunteers and it grew from there.
What’s one piece of advice you have for volunteers or their leaders out there?
Be flexible and remember that people are giving freely of their time- you couldn't do it without them! I have to remember this isn't a full time job for our volunteers so I need to be sure they realize how much I appreciate their help. I try to be flexible with their shifts and understanding if they end up with a conflict.
Why did you decide to use VolunteerSpot?
I discovered VolunteerSpot when my daughter's school librarian used it for book fair sign ups. I realized this could make my life alot easier because until this point I was either calling or emailing every volunteer individually to work out their schedule.
Check out My Child's Closet, Inc online!
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