Did you hear about last year’s recipients of Canada’s Volunteer Awards? Dr. Francis Ho volunteered in the public health sector for over 60 years! Gurmit Kaur Surpal has helped newcomers to Canada for the past 40 years. Robyn Ham created the social enterprise SaskMasks, to provide masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelagh Armour-Godbolt has been […]
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Group volunteering is a central feature of most employer-supported volunteering programs, especially pre-pandemic. Groups of 5, 10, 50, sometimes 100 or more employees are deployed in-person, usually for a day or part of a day, to address a need defined by a community organization. Popular activities include outdoor planting, gardening, painting, clean-up; sorting and organizing […]
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