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When volunteer organizations can't solve uneven participation

Our volunteer organization has a few people who do most of the work and a lot of people who show up occasionally, and the core group is getting burned out but we don't know how to change the dynamic without losing people or seeming demanding. We keep hoping more people will naturally step up but it's not happening.

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Sustainable collective action requires addressing participation imbalances that everyone can see but no one knows how to change without conflict.

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