Share Your Experience
Share your talents, knowledge, skills, and experiences with your community. Put your interests to good use by finding a volunteer activity that includes something that you used to enjoy. For example, if you retired from a teaching career, you might enjoy volunteering at a youth center. Volunteer activities can align with almost any interest, including art, building, cooking, business, and exercise. Do some research to find the one that best fits your interests.
Some curated articles just for you, to guide you towards a volunteer experience that is right for you:
How to Make an Offer to Help
Here’s an interview with a volunteer engagement professional on how to share your talents, experience and knowledge and make an offer to volunteer. Potential Volunteer (PV): What would the first step be for me if I wish to offer my skills and abilities to an organization as a volunteer? Volunteer Engagement Professional (VEP): You could begin by looking up an organization or a few organizations to [read full article]
How to Find Age-Friendly Volunteer Opportunities
Finding a fulfilling volunteer position can take some time, just like seeking paid work does, but it will be well worth the effort to find volunteer opportunities where you can engage your time, talents and treasures! The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi Places and ideas to find age-friendly volunteer opportunities: Organizations you already know and [read full article]
Different Types of Volunteering
The type of volunteer roles that Canadians seek evolve during their lifetime with changing priorities and circumstances. Understanding and comparing the different types of volunteering and ways people volunteer can help you decide where you would like to put your energy, time and talents and what might be a good fit for you. Older people are often looking for a range of options for what fits [read full article]
Volunteering One of the Most Powerful Things You Can Do
One of the first pieces of advice that, the founder of Blue Zones, always gives as a way to improve your life, health, and happiness is to sign up to volunteer in your community. Helping others benefits our health, just as it benefits those we serve through volunteering, says the founder of Blue Zones, Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Explorer and Fellow and journalist. He coined [read full article]
Virtual Volunteering
What does Virtual Volunteering Even Mean? Is it for Me? In a nut shell, virtual volunteering means you volunteer from a location that is not at the organization you are volunteering with. Most virtual volunteers volunteer from the comfort of their own home. We’re glad you’ve asked! Virtual volunteering usually means you volunteer from a computer or tablet (like an iPad), usually online through the world [read full article]
Differences between Charities, Non-profits, Volunteer-run Organizations
What kinds of organizations can I volunteer with or offer my skills to? There are differences between charities, non-profit organizations, volunteer-run groups, and social enterprises and most, if not all, engage or involve volunteers. This is the good news! (There is no bad news.) For simplicity’s sake, we’ll call these four types of organizations “volunteer-involving organizations” as there is no particular agreed upon phrase to refer [read full article]
