Want to know which organizations have attended the Spring 2023 VOLT Volunteer Fair?
Check out the list of organizations below.
Not-for-Profit
A.S.K. Friendship Society is a non-profit adult day program with 45+ years experience serving our community.
An Adult Day Program (ADP) is a program of out-of-home social/physical activities and basic medical care for older adults and is designed both to reduce social isolation and to improve life quality while providing respite to caregivers and families. We recruit volunteers to work directly with seniors, deliver meals to isolated seniors, provide music and entertainment, and assist our chef in the kitchen.
Website: A.S.K Friendship Centre
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
Desired Skills/Abilities
Most Importantly:
- Friendly, open-minded, and willing to learn to better our seniors' lives
Asset:
- Pervious work with seniors, especially with those with Alzheimer's, Dementia, or Parkinson's
The Environmental Youth Alliance is a registered charity supporting equity-seeking youth to connect with nature, community, and skills to become environmental stewards and community leaders. We provide free land-based education and paid employment-training programs in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.We are a force of young people changing the world, one seed at a time. We formed with a vision of connecting people with the environment as well as with each other. Since EYA’s inception in 1989, we have been using experiential learning to grow communities and embark on new quests to help us better understand our own inner nature. We inject passion, energy and expertise into the environmental movement.
Website: Environmental Youth Alliance
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
Desired Skills/Abilities
The following are useful skills that can be an asset but they are not required:
- Experience working with youth
- Experience working outdoors
Fresh Roots is an urban agriculture non-profit organization that stewards schoolyard farms in the Lower Mainland. Our vision is Good Food For All, which is realized when youth have the skills, capacity, and will to act as food citizens and land stewards, to grow and share healthy food for themselves, their families, and the planet!
To make this vision a reality, we cultivate educational farms and programs where students dig into meaningful connections with the land, food, and each other, inspiring communitites to build just food systems.
Website: Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
Desired Skills/Abilities
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Previous work with kids
- Comfortable working outside in all weather conditions
At KidSafe, we work on the ground to help the children and families who need us most. When schools close for winter, spring and summer breaks, KidSafe opens.
Each program participant is professionally referred by social workers, school counsellors, principals, teachers, or refugee and newly immigrant community support workers, as a child in need of a safe, accessible, and enriching and no-cost program due to systemic barriers they and their family face. For many children and youth, the absence of school can result in extended periods of unsupervised vulnerable time. We support children in Vancouver schools between 5-12 years old and serve up to 450 children and youth annually. The kids we work with are incredibly resilient, and full of life and inspire KidSafe staff who are lucky to work with them day after day.
Website: The KidSafe Project Society
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
Desired Skills/Abilities
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Comfortable working with children
- Organized
- Web Development skills
- Office Admin skills
Driven by compassion and social justice, Providence Health Care is at the forefront of exceptional care and innovation. We are committed to treating those we serve — and each other — with compassion and respect. We have a variety of opportunities for students interested in healthcare or giving back to vulnerable populations.
Volunteer positions are available across six different Providence Health Care sites in Acute
and Long Term Care.
Website: Providence Health Care
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
We are a non-profit theatre company that depends on the hard work of 200+ volunteers every season to produce two full musicals every summer. TUTS has become a Vancouver summer tradition, located at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park.We recruit both front-of-house and production volunteers. Production volunteers can expect to learn about costuming, lighting, and design in the theatre production industry. FOH volunteers gain customer service skills in a fun environment while also learning about the arts industry. FOH can work in box office, coffee bar, or as ushers / ticket scanners.
Website: Theatre Under The Stars
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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In-person opportunities
The Vancouver Pride Society strives to produce inclusive, celebratory events, and advocate for 2SLGBTQAI+ communities through an intersectional lens.
We strive to produce events that reflect the pride the 2SLGBTQAI+ community has in itself, by strengthening the sense of community, and contributing to the vibrancy, health and overall well-being of all persons in the community.
Website: Vancouver Pride Society
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
- In-person opportunities
Charitable Organizations
The Lower Mainland Green Team is a program of the charity Green Teams of Canada (GTC). GTC connects, builds and empowers diverse communities through hands-on activities that promote health, well-being and environmental stewardship. Through opportunities such as invasive plant removals, plantings, cleanups and more, GTC empowers and impacts people to take care of themselves, their communities and the environment. No experience is necessary and all ages, backgrounds, abilities and experience levels are welcome! Instruction, tools, gloves and refreshments are provided.
Website: Lower Mainland Green Team
Opportunities Available
- In-person volunteering
Desired Skills/Abilities
No experience is necessary! Instruction, tools, gloves and refreshments are provided at each activity.
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House plays a leadership role in building a healthy and engaged neighbourhood by connecting people and strengthening their capacity to create change.
We value: human potential, stewardship of resources, the strength that diversity brings and the role of social inclusion in neighbourhood life, social justice, learning and innovation, and celebration of past, present, and future.
Our House is located at 800 East Broadway - at Broadway and Prince Albert. We have over 40 programs (both in-person and digital), and over 220 volunteers that support them.
Website: Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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Virtual opportunities
- In-person opportunities
Desired Skills/Abilities
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Criminal Record Check
- Additional languages other than English an asset
- Digital Literacy skills and asset
United for Literacy is a national charitable literacy organization, established in 1899 on the belief that literacy is a right for all. We work collaboratively with community-based agencies to provide targeted, innovative literacy support where it is needed most.
In the Lower Mainland of BC, we partner with several community organizations to offer Elementary and High School homework clubs, Digital Literacy programs, 1:1 Youth and Adult Tutoring, English Cenversation Circles and more!
Volunteers are not required to have any teaching or tutoring experience; all we ask is that you have a passion for learning and a dedication to supporting learners with an inclusive and respectful approach that prioritizes their goals.
Website: United for Literacy
Opportunities to be promoted at VOLT Fair
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Virtual opportunities
- In-person opportunities
Education / Public Service
The Langara Student Success Course (LSSC) prepares students for academic life at Langara and introduces them to key supports available on campus and online. The LSSC Student Ambassadors are very important as they welcome new students and help with their transition into post-secondary. For many students, we are their first contact with the college.
Website: Langara Student Success Course
Opportunities:
- Virtual Volunteering
- In-person Volunteering
Skills and/or Abilities:
- Successful completion of the LSSC
- Comfortable speaking to groups in a virtual environment
- Friendly & welcoming