Benefits of Volunteering

  • Make important networking contacts
  • Learn or develop skills
  • Gain work experience
  • Build self-esteem and self-confidence
  • Improve health
  • Help you meet new people
  • Feel needed and valued
  • Make a difference in someone’s life
  • Express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization

Why Should I Volunteer?

  • Help build a stronger community
  • Learn new skills
  • Meet new people
  • Try something different
  • Help others in the community
  • Provide needed volunteer skills
  • Explore new challenges
  • Gain experience
  • Become involved
  • Have fun

Where Can I Volunteer?

  • Social Service Agencies
  • Education
  • Arts & Culture
  • Environmental Organizations
  • Health Care & Health Promotion
  • Recreation & Sports
  • Justice & Correctional Services

What Can I Do?

  • Volunteer with an individual or with a group
  • Volunteer at home; at the agency or organization's premises; or out in the community
  • Volunteer the time you want to give: days or evenings; on an on-going or short term basis

Volunteer opportunities are many and varied:

  • Edit a newsletter
  • Be a driver
  • Answer a crisis line
  • Look after cats & dogs
  • Be a tutor
  • Be a canvasser
  • Call or visit a shut-in
  • Serve as a board member or committee member
  • Do computer work
  • Deliver meals
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