Areas of interest
Areas of Interest
The following is a list of examples related to each Area of Interest.
You are welcome to select more that one area of interest.
- Animals: care for animals, visit others with your animal.
- Arts & Crafts: work with children, decorate for special events, work in a day camp setting, design displays or bulletin boards, needlecrafts, woodworking, face painting.
- Boards and Committees: offer expertise in areas such as human resources, legal matters, accounting, planning, fundraising and marketing.
- Caring Support: friendly visitor, one on one support, listener, shopper, porter, reading to others, hairdressing and manicures.
- Children/ Youth: work with children (preschoolers and youth), work with children and youth with a physical or developmental disability, work in a classroom setting, work in a day camp setting and peer support/mentor.
- Communication/Public Relation: work with the public, hand out flyers, work at information booths at malls and community centres, work on a committee related to marketing an organization and their events.
- Computers: data entry, website design, graphic design of newsletters, computer programming and computer training.
- Counseling: telephone crisis line, mediation service, group/individual support,support group facilitators and spiritual guidance.
- Culture/Heritage/Museum: assistance with theatrical production (director, actor, stage support, puppeteer or usher), interpreter at a museum or historic location, assistance at gallery or museum, and historical research.
- Driver: drive seniors to programs and appointments, drive children and parents to programs and appointments, deliver food or other items.
- Event Planning/ Fundraising: assist with bingo, door to door canvassing, serve on a fundraising committee and plan events, research into grants and funding options.
- Food Services: food service (prepare and serve/sell food, pack food hampers, set up and clean up of food areas), retail sales (handle cash, serve customers, price items, arrange displays, stock shelves).
- Gardening/Environment: weed, plant, water, landscape design, green space preservation and environmental research.
- Health Care: presentations related to health, volunteer in hospital or senior resident environments, and volunteer with a team for Emergency Response.
- Library: deliver books to elderly, catalogue books and toys, and maintain resource library.
- Maintenance: skilled trades, basic home maintenance, painting, woodworking and cleaning.
- Management: accounting, bookkeeping, volunteer management and consultation on policy and procedures.
- Office Work: reception, greeting clients and/or visitors, photocopying, filing, data entry, working on computers, typing, stuffing envelopes, preparing mailings, library or work with legal/corrections.
- Recreation/Sports: recreation (swimming, skating, dance, fitness programs) and leisure activities (playing cards and other games), community outings, sports (basketball, soccer).
- Retail Sales/Donation: gift wrapping, flower sales, concession attendant, donation distribution and food hamper assistant.
- Seniors: programs serving persons over the age of 65, support for shut in’s and persons in nursing care, senior summer and winter games committee.
- Special Events: festivals, garage sales, gift wrapping, car washes, runs, food drives, golf tournaments and one/two day events.
- Teaching/Tutoring: one to one tutor or teacher of literacy, English as a Second Language, academic topics (such as math, science, English, French) and computer skills.
- Maintenance: skilled trades, basic home maintenance, painting, woodworking and cleaning.
- Management: accounting, bookkeeping, volunteer management and consultation on policy and procedures.
- Office Work: reception, greeting clients and/or visitors, photocopying, filing, data entry, working on computers, typing, stuffing envelopes, preparing mailings, library or work with legal/corrections.
- Recreation/Sports: recreation (swimming, skating, dance, fitness programs) and leisure activities (playing cards and other games), community outings, sports (basketball, soccer).
- Retail Sales/Donation: gift wrapping, flower sales, concession attendant, donation distribution and food hamper assistant.
- Seniors: programs serving persons over the age of 65, support for shut in’s and persons in nursing care, senior summer and winter games committee.
- Special Events: festivals, garage sales, gift wrapping, car washes, runs, food drives, golf tournaments and one/two day events.
- Teaching/Tutoring: one to one tutor or teacher of literacy, English as a Second Language, academic topics (such as math, science, English, French) and computer skills.
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Organizations
This listing includes only the not for profit and charitable organizations that have membership with the Volunteer Action Centre. You may find that some organizations are not posting volunteer positions at this time.
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