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I think you are doing a tremendous job - it is hard and exhausing to always be the cheerleader/organizer/recruiter when it feels like no one else cares. I've been in that boat before - it sucks it sucks it sucks and then all of a sudden things start clicking and it takes off.
I'm going to add to my comment and say the best way to get people involved is to ask them directly; face-to-face if possible. (email is too easy to ignore)
I read somewhere once that if you ask for volunteers and send to many people on email; you will get few responses because of the "bystander" issue - everyone will assume that someone ELSE will step in to help. However; if you ask personally the individual will rarely say no. (Of course this is sort of blackmail :-) )
I hear you on the trancience. I live in the DC area, and we have a revolving door of members. We have a fairly large organization and a fairly large board and we still struggle - we have 2-3 board members move out of town yearly it seems (we're already on our third treasurer this year) - just the nature of the city. which is why the small group approach has worked well for us - the groups self-sustain, even through membership turns over. Other than that there is not much you can do about it - just go with the flow I guess :-)
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