" Volunteers make informal science possible. Virtually all not-for-profit science education organizations depend on unpaid help, from institutions as large as the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History to the smallest online advice-sharing websites. But volunteers don’t just happen – they have to be recruited, trained, supervised, and rewarded."
Learn from the successes (and failures) of museums, science centers, and other informal science education programs in developing and managing volunteer programs, and add your comments, experience, and observations to the blog. Current articles include the Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, and the Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.
A project of the New York Hall of Science's Volunteers Try Science (VolTS) program, blog articles are contributed by Brad Edmondson, in collaboration with VolTS.