Outside of her AmeriCorps service, Paula put her recruitment skills to work in getting a group of family and friends to sew nearly 1,000 bags for the Ottumwa Food Bank as a way to help the bank distribute fresh produce to Iowans in need during the pandemic. Wanting to ensure future members felt empowered in recruiting efforts, she developed a training on “How to Become a Volunteer Superstar: Simple Steps to help you recruit Volunteers for your many projects,” which she shares with new cohorts of AmeriCorps members. Throughout her AmeriCorps service, Paula built a passion for volunteer recruitment and ways to improve it. This spurred larger discussions among the community’s helping services organizations to think about future collaboration through Paula’s AmeriCorps Program, United Way, and others. In June of 2021, the program provided 8,344 meals for families during a food insecure time. The 2023 Volunteer Hall of Fame Inductees: Paula Falconer, OskaloosaĪs an AmeriCorps service member in 2021, Paula established a partnership between The Eddyville Summer Lunch Program and local engineers from Cargill. Nominees must live or operate in Iowa: individuals, national service members, families, groups, organizations, nonprofits, businesses, or corporations may be nominated.įor information on the Excellence in Mentoring award winners, visit the Iowa MENTOR website.
Nominations may be submitted by anyone familiar with the nominee's volunteer commitment and impact. Since the award’s inception in 1989, over 175 Iowans have been honored. The Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame is the most prestigious state-level honor volunteers can receive the people selected have freely given their precious time and talent in countless ways to benefit others and have forever changed their community, the state, the nation, or the world. Inductees are recognized during a special ceremony held in the State Capitol Building and their names are engraved on the Volunteer Hall of Fame plaque on permanent display in the State Historical Museum.
Volunteer Hall of Fame Members Nominations are now CLOSED for the 2023 Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame Awards. Governor Adam Gregg, Taylor Goetz and mentee, Charlene Lamberti, Don Lamberti
Governor Adam Greggīack row, left to right: Paula Falconer, Robert "Bob" King, Ray Haas, Glen Umbaugh, Volunteer Iowa commission chair Angela Jiskootįront row, left to right: Leann, Jessica Komisar, Lt. 2023 Volunteer Hall of Fame Inductees with Lt.
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