Laker Pioneer Article about WeCAB Volunteer Shortage

Laker Reporter, Elizabeth Hustad (laker.reporter@ecm-inc.com) wrote a great article about WeCAB Volunteer Drivers and Dispatchers. Here’s an excerpt:

The Mound-based nonprofit has been hurting for volunteers “almost from the get-go,” said its co-founder, Mike Skinner. WeCAB was under the umbrella of WeCAN for its pilot year in 2011, and its first drivers were those who also helped with WeCAN’s Meals on Wheels program.

Now, the service’s ridership outnumbers its volunteer drivers 10-to-1, counting more than 660 registered riders between its Westonka and Carver County chapters last year but only 65 drivers. The nonprofit is even more hard up for dispatchers: just 12 people handle the ride requests that come in every Monday through Friday.

“Funding’s always nice, but volunteers are really the key to getting it done,” said Katie Boller Gosewich. Gosewich, who took over as executive director of WeCAB in May of 2018, is one of just two paid staff at WeCAB.

To read the full Laker Pioneer Article, click here