You can boost volunteer performance by allowing volunteers to set their own goals, providing effective training and making sure they have the tools and opportunities they need to thrive. Make sure you’re honoring their scheduling preferences and the specific set of interests, skills and talents they bring to the project. In addition, consider establishing relevant partnership and collaboration opportunities that can support success and enhance each volunteers performance or capacity. Finally, don’t forget to ask them what they need to succeed. Request and apply their feedback when possible, and provide meaningful updates regarding the short and long term benefit and impact of their efforts.

In that case, it's really important to make sure volunteers know precisely what's the goal of the outreach and what is expected from each one of them. It's also important to ensure they have all the resources needed to achieve their goals and they are in an appropriate environment to deploy themselves.