Great acts of service are not just performed by individuals. Some organizations are established precisely to serve their communities. These not-for-profit organizations and social enterprises exist to meet a need in the community, or to conduct business with a social purpose.
Continue ReadingCanada’s Volunteer Awards – Highlighting past recipients under the Emerging Leader category
Young people across Canada are doing amazing acts of volunteerism in their local communities and beyond. Canada’s Volunteer Awards, an annual recognition program administered by the Government of Canada, recognizes 5 of these individuals every year. Here are just a couple…
Continue ReadingStudent’s view on team management in the volunteer sector
How does the volunteer sector manage to excel without exhausting the thousands of volunteers and employees that work for it? Last January, I joined the eight-person team at Volunteer Canada (VC) as Communication and Marketing Assistant. Now that my student internship is almost over, I would like to share what I have learned in terms […]
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