Volunteer Calgary is a non-profit organization that connects over 450 member non-profit organizations with people seeking meaningful volunteer opportunities. Volunteering benefits both the volunteer through skills development and personal growth, as well as the community through contributions to non-profits. The Volunteer Calgary website lists hundreds of local volunteer positions in diverse areas to match people's interests and availability.

1. Volunteer
Calgary
the value of one… the power of many.

2. Today’s Speaker

3. Volunteer Calgary
…is a non-profit organization that
has over 450 member non-profit
organizations looking for
volunteers everyday.

4. Volunteer Calgary
…connects people
to meaningful
volunteer opportunities.

5. Volunteering…
What is it all about?

7. Volunteers are people who:
• Give skills and time
• Help non-profit organizations and the
community
• …And do so without expectations of
compensation!

8. Who benefits from volunteering?
• The Volunteer
• The Non-profit Organization
• You, Me, The Entire Community

9. But what is in it for YOU?
Contribute to the Share Your Skills and
knowledge Achieve a
Community personal goal
Get Recognition
Meet New People

10. Discover new
passions and Learn something
talents Feel Great! new
Have an Make a difference in
adventure! someone’s life

11. My own experience as a volunteer.

12. Nobody
made a greater mistake
than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.
— Edmond Burke

13. Think about it: Do you want
to…
• GIVE back to the community?
• WORK for social change?
• LEARN new skills?
• HELP others?
• MEET new friends?
• GAIN work experience?
• CREATE happiness in a hospice?
• DANCE with special people?
• LAUGH with little kids?
• ENJOY life?

14. What can YOU do?
Do something you love.

15. ONE Person can MAKE a Difference.
YOU CAN.

16. How to volunteer
1. CLICK
www.volunteercalgary.ab.ca
2. SEARCH & MATCH
3. CONTACT (Get the important details:
address, contact person, time and date of
meeting, what you need to bring)
4. VOLUNTEER (Voila…you are a
volunteer!)

17. How to volunteer
www.volunteercalgary.ab.ca
The Volunteer Calgary website
contains hundreds of local
volunteer opportunities waiting to
be filled at any given time.

20. SAMPLE KEYWORDS
Beauty & Fashion Entertainment
Bingos
Event Marketing
Mentoring
Casinos
Planning Tutoring
Boards Finance Music
Camps Accounting Projects
Adventure
Audit
Coach Speaking
Kitchen Facilitation
Referee
Committees Gardening Administration
Research
Companion
Computers Employee Analytical
Networks Landscaping
Retail
Safety
Consultant Help
Grant
Theatre
Advisor Design
Editor Hardware Recruitment
Writing Software Web
Proofreading Leadership
Development
Data

23. Some Examples: Volunteer
Positions
• Labyrinth Inflatable Maze volunteers –
Calgary International Children’s Festival
• Recycling Roundup – Cerebral Palsy
Association
• Web Designer – WP Puppet Theatre
Society
• Bike Trail Monitor Volunteer - WinSport

24. Got Time?
If you have 5 minutes
You could call an elderly shut-in.
Drop by at any Carewest facility.
If you have 1 hour
You could give blood.
Make a pit stop at the Canadian Blood Services.
If you have 5 hours
You could tidy up a city park.
Join forces with the City of Calgary’s Adopt-A-Park.
If you have 5 days
You could build a home for a homeless family.
Lend a muscle to Habitat for Humanity.
If you have 1 month
You could raise funds for cancer research.
Brainstorm with the Canadian Cancer Society.
If you have 1 year
You could do all this and more!
Check out Volunteer Calgary
for hundreds of volunteer opportunities.

25. Remember: Everyone Counts
1. 71% of Calgarians volunteer
2. 3.7 hours per week are spent
volunteering, with an average of 15 hours
per month.
3. Over 5,000 non-profit organizations are in
the Calgary area. Most of them need
volunteers everyday.

26. The Value of Volunteering
• Empowers individuals
• Aids non-profit organizations in their
missions
• Strengthens communities

27. The Value of Volunteering
Priceless.

28. Rewards of Volunteering
It is one of the
most beautiful compensations of this life
that no man can seriously
help another without
helping himself.
— Charles Dudley Warner, 1873

29. The Value of Volunteering
To the community:
Priceless.

30. Volunteer
Today, Calgary!