THE FOLLOWING is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.
Food and Warehouse Coordinator: Volunteer is needed to co-ordinate and manage the Harvest Project warehouse and ensure all inventory is properly received, sorted, rotated, accounted for and reported on. See the Harvest Project website for full job description harvestproject.org.
Program Mentor: Junior Achievement of B.C. is currently accepting applications for program mentors for the 20122013 school year. As a program mentor, you will encourage students in Grades 9 and 10 to explore job and career choices by focusing on the direct link between further education and personal goals. Topics include: goal-setting, budgeting and job interviews.
Volunteers: North Shore Crisis Services Society seeks volunteers to receive, sort and ticket for their non-profit store and to also sort and bag items that are being passed on to other non-profit agencies. Volunteer position does not include working in actual thrift store, but preparing items for store.
One-On-One Visitors: Volunteers are needed to provide seniors with companionship and consistency in their lives through regular weekly visits in their homes, by going for walks or sharing in other activities and helping them with access to the community.
Child Minder Volunteers: The Parent Support Society is looking for individuals to deliver a quality child minding/play group program for children from birth to five years and older. The child minders will work within the child minding team.
If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities, call 604-985-7138. The society is a partner agency of the United Way.
