We strongly encourage you to look first to your school district or local school volunteer organization for your volunteers. Very often, there are resources right in your midst that are waiting to be tapped.
Parents are great potential sources for weekly and short term volunteers.
If their schedule allows, many parents welcome the opportunity to get to learn more about their children's schooling by coming to the classroom on a regular basis and assisting with whatever is needed. Working parents who cannot volunteer on a weekly basis may want to help with some of the short term needs outlined earlier - chaperoning a field trip, hosting a work site visit, assisting with a half day service project. In our work with volunteers, we have learned that the more specific you are about your request, the better the response. Most partnerships include some level of employee volunteerism on a weekly basis or with short term projects. Each partnership has a school liaison.