Services to community organizations

Hundreds of Montreal community organizations benefit from the services offered by the Volunteer Bureau of Montreal. These include the recruitment and referral of volunteers, a training program on volunteer management, the organization of volunteer fairs, Consultation service and Ressource library on volunteer management, our free newsletter and the distribution of promotional material for Volunteer Week.

• Recruitment and referral of volunteers: Do you need volunteers occasionally or on a regular basis? Let us know! Your requests can be posted on our website at cabm.net as well as distributed to some sixty media contacts. Our placement counselors, themselves volunteers, offer a volunteer pre-selection service, referring people who visit the centre to organizations whose needs match their skills, interests and availability.

• A new training program: our workshops, designed specifically for volunteer coordinators in community organizations, provide a training which covers the essentials of managing volunteer human resources-recruitment, selection, motivation, etc.-and also offers an excellent networking opportunity. Workshops can take place on our premises or yours!

• Volunteer fairs: events generally taking place on a university campus, where prospective volunteers can visit information booths representing dozens of community organizations.

• A resource library open to the general public, where you can find a multitude of documents about volunteerism.

• A website as well as newsletters that keep you up to date with the latest developments in the field of volunteering.

• Volunteer Week: a week in April dedicated to honoring volunteers, encouraging volunteering, organizing special events, distributing promotional material, etc.

Founded in 1937, a Centraide of Greater Montreal agency and a registered charitable organization, the VBM is the oldest volunteer bureau in Canada! Our mission is the promotion of volunteerism. The VBM is a founding member of the Fédération des centres d'action bénévole du Québec (FCABQ), a member of Volunteer Canada and a collaborator with the Réseau de l'action bénévole du Québec.

Thousands of Montrealers come to the Bureau every year looking for volunteer work. We have active requests for volunteers from over 700 community organizations. We can refer you to an organization that corresponds to your interests and can make good use of your time and skills.

Photos: Ariel Tarr