Services to community organizations

Hundreds of Montreal community organizations benefit from the services offered by the Volunteer Bureau of Montreal. These include:


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 training on the essentials of managing volunteer human resources—recruitment, selection, motivation, etc.—and also offer an excellent networking opportunity. Workshops can take place on our premises or yours!
Volunteer fairs are special events, usually taking place on university campuses, at which prospective volunteers can visit information booths representing dozens of community organizations.
Group volunteering:  The VBM is often contacted by corporations or other organizations wanting to get their employees or members involved in the community through a group volunteer activity. These groups vary in size—from 4 to 150 persons!—and in how much time they have to offer.
A resource library open to the general public, where an extensive collection of documents about volunteerism are available for research and consultation.
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, the VBM, a Centraide of Greater Montreal agency and a registered charitable organization, 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

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