Volunteerism

The Course Project – Volunteer Motivation

James Shanbrom

4738 West Avenue J3

Lancaster, CA 93536

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GM-591 on Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Kenneth Goldsmith

October 17, 2010

Volunteer Motivation with External and Internal Counter Culture Forces

The California Republican Assembly is a grassroots political organization that was designed and “Chartered in 1934.” “The CRA is the state’s oldest and largest Republican Volunteer Organization,” (http://www.californiarepublicanassembly.com/content/about-us-0), Ronald Reagan even called the Californian Republican Assembly the “Conscience of the Republican Party.”

The CRA has been working to elect Republican candidates who stand unwaveringly for Republican principles and is designed to keep elected officials honest and true to the CRA values. The CRA locates and trains individuals to become potential candidates to be elected into office from the local school boards to the Governor’s position.

The CRA has more than one hundred local chapters from San Diego to Sacramento (California Republic and Assembly Bylaws and Volunteers, 2010) have been the main driving force behind those chapters.

My role in this organization was the position of Chapter President.

Voted Chapter President for the Antelope Valley Chapter of the CRA in 2005, I was re-elected in 2006. As Chapter President my duties consisted of various activities. Some of those activities included (ARTICLE VIII DUTIES OF OFFICERS & DIRECTORS March 7, 2010), but were not limited to: Participation in the State Conventions, presiding over the meetings of the Board of Directors of the local chapter, acting as Chief Executive Officer of the local chapter, plus, direction and determination of Member’s levels of volunteering and commitment.

While I was President of the local CRA Chapter of Antelope Valley, the Antelope Valley Republican Assembly, I learned that the previous

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