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 […]
Continue ReadingNational Volunteer Week is taking off!
NVW 2019 Blog Series : Part 1 The National Volunteer Week 2019 hot air balloon lifts off today to celebrate The Volunteer Factor: Lifting Communities! Get on board with us to thank the 12.7 million Canadians volunteers and get a bird’s eye view of how they lift communities. We hover over volunteers lifting the mushroom compost […]
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