Organizations always seeking volunteers

Posted May 24th, 2007 by Sylvain
The following 128 organizations are always looking for new volunteers and are ready to take them on at any time. You can contact them directly, without going through the Volunteer Bureau.
Note: Community organizations who'd like to add their name to this list are requested to fill out an Authorization form and fax it to us at 514.842.8977.

Art & culture / Children & youth / Community development / Cultural communities / Environment / Families / Health and social services / Intellectual disabilities / International cooperation / Mental health / Seniors / Sports and recreation / Women

Health and social services

- Addictions: alcohol, drugs & gambling: Fondation Dollard-Cormier
- Blood drives: Héma-Québec

- Breast cancer: Breast Cancer Action Montreal
- Burn victimes: Entraide grands brûlés
- Cancer research: Cancer Research Society 
- Community health care services: Queen Elizabeth Health Complex
- Food bank: NDG Food Depot
- Food security: Regroupement des Cuisines Collectives du Grand Plateau
- Food security: Quebec Collective Kitchens Association
- Fundraising, office work: Cancer Research Society
- Fundraising for cancer research: Terry Fox Foundation
- Fundraising : Montreal Breast Cancer Foundation
- Health and social services: CLSC René-Cassin
- Health and social services: Centre de santé et de services sociaux Cavendish
- Heart research, public awareness: Heart and Stroke Foundation
- HIV/AIDS help line: Gay Line
- HIV/AIDS information: CPAVIH
- HIV/AIDS people living with HIV: Maison d Hérelle
- Hospital work: St. Mary’s Hospital Center
- Information about traumatic brain injury: AQTC           
- Juvenile Diabetes: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Literacy: Frontier College
- Literacy: The Learning Exchange
- Men's shelter and other community services: Welcome Hall Mission
- Permanent exhibition on medecine and religious art: Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
- People living with HIV/AIDS: AIDS Community Care Montreal  
- Physical rehabilitation institute: Institut de réadaptation de Montréal
- Poverty, people in need: Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul de Montréal
- Recording books for the visually impaired: La Magnétothèque
- Services & programs for families & individuals: CCS/Catholic Community Services
- Support services for persons with HD and their families: Huntington Society of Quebec
- Support to families: Jewish Family Services
- Support services, fundraising: Alzheimer Society of Montreal
- Telephone listening service: Tel-Aide
- Visual disabilities: Regroupement des Aveugles et Amblyopes du Montréal Métropolitain

Seniors

- Alcohol or medication dependency: Groupe Harmonie

- Alternative Day Centre for seniors: Long-term care:  Centre Évasion
- Community centre for seniors: Contactivity Centre
- Helping people over 50: Centre du Vieux Moulin de LaSalle
- Home-care services: The Yellow Door
- Home support: Entraide bénévole Métro
- Intergenerational Meals-on-Wheels service: Santropol Roulant
- Jewish long-term care centre: Jewish Eldercare Centre      
- Long-term care: Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
- Long-term care: Maimonides Geriatric Centre
- Long-term care services for clients with serious special needs: Grace Dart Extended Care Centre
- Research and support services: Federation of Quebec Alzheimer Societies
- Quality of life, solidarity: Table de concertation des aînés de l’île de Montréal
- Senior Community Centre: The Teapot
- Services for seniors: CCS/Catholic Community Services
- Serve the elderly persons in the downtown: The Yellow Door
- Services & activities for seniors: Good Shepherd Community Centre
- Services & activities for seniors: Almage Senior Community Centre
- Social action: Forum des citoyens aînés de Montréal 

Women

- Acquiring work skills: Petites-Mains
- Day shelter for women in difficulty: Chez Doris 
- Domestic violence: Women Aware
- Helping homeless women and women in difficulty: Montreal Herstreet
- HIV / AIDS: Centre for AIDS Services of Montreal (Women)
- HIV / AIDS: Centre de ressources et d’intervention en santé et sexualité (CRISS)
- Information, counselling, training, referral, etc.: Women’s Centre of Montréal
- Multiple programs and services: Women’s Y

Children & youth

- Children in single-parent families: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Montreal
- Children with life-threatening illnesses: The Lighthouse Children and Families
- Children with life-threatening illnesses: Make-a-Wish Foundation
- Families with young children: Premiers Pas/Home-Start
- Fundraising, office work: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Hearing-impaired children: Montreal Oral School
- Helping unemployed individuals since 1995: Cible Retour à l'emploi
- In-school mentoring: Prometheus Project
- Intégration des jeunes adultes sans emploi: Intégration jeunesse du Québec
- Job reinsertion: EPOC Montréal
- Pimary schools: Quebec Breakfast Club
- Phone lines for kids and parents: Kids Help Phone
- Promote classical music, especialy for young audiences: Jeunesses musicales du Canada
- Science promotion: Conseil du Loisir Scientifique de la région Métropolitaine
- Youth and community centre: Boys and Girls Club of LaSalle
- Youth on the street: Dans la rue

Families

- Helping families with one or more children under five: Premiers pas/Home Start
- Problems of co-ordination: Association canadienne des ataxies familiales
- Services from pre-school to adult development: Little Burgundy Community Centre
- Support for families of children with life-threatening illnesses: The Lighthouse Children and Families

Cultural communities

- Aboriginal women and their children: Native Women's Shelter of Montreal
- English lessons for New Canadians: Y.M.-Y.W.H.A.
- Intercultural activities: Intercultural Institute of Montreal
- Job training for women: Petites-Mains
- Mentorship project:  Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi of NDG 
- Participation, inclusion and social justice: Project Genesis
- Training, mentoring: Association des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques Haïtiano-Canadiens
- Welcoming foreign students: AFS Interculture Canada
- Welcoming immigrants: PROMIS

Mental health

- Adults with mental health issues or intellectual disabilities: Parrainage civique de l'Est de l'île de Montréal
- Helping families manage the effects of mental illness: Ami-Québec / Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- Mental health: Douglas Hospital
- Mental health: Douglas Hospital Foundation
- Mental health: Friends for Mental Health (West Island)

Intellectual disabilities

- Intellectual disabilities: Montreal Association for the Intellectually Handicapped
- Intellectual disabilities: Miriam Home & Services
- Intellectual disabilities: L’Arche-Montréal
- Intellectual disabilities: West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped
- Mentally challenged athletes: Quebec Special Olympics
- Support to handicapped or disadvantaged persons: West Island Citizen Advocacy

Art & culture

- Contemporary Dance: Tangente
- Contemporary Dance: Dansons ensemble!
- History museum: Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum
- Holiday season outdoor events: L'Auguste Théâtre
- Theatre for young audiences: Geordie Theatre Productions
- Promote classical music, especialy for young audiences: Jeunesses musicales du Canada
- Rail transportation museum: Canadian Railway Museum / Exporail
- Musée, éducation, droits de l'homme: Centre commémoratif de l'Holocauste à Montréal
- Museum of Quebec cultural heritage: Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec
- Outdoor theatre company: Repercussion Theatre / Shakespeare-in-the-Park
- Gay & lesbian theatre: OUT Productions
- Theatre festival: Montreal Fringe Festival
- World Choral Competition of Laval:  The Loto-Québec World Choral Festival

Sports & recreation

- Soccer for girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 16: Prestige Soccer School
- Sports and cultural event: Montreal International Dragon Boat Race Festival
- Sports for the blind: Association des sports pour aveugles de Montréal

Environment

- Ecomuseum: St. Lawrence Valley Natural History Society
- Fair trade: Ten Thousand Villages
- Moteur d'une économie verte : Consortium Echo-Logique
- Sensibilisation et mobilisation citoyenne : Éco-quartier Parc-Extension      

Community development

- Community organizing, food bank, etc.: NDG Community Council
- Drop-in centre, food bank, thrift shop: Mile End Community Mission
- Healthy eating and autonomy: The Garde-Manger Pour Tous 
- Non-profit housing organization: Habitat for humanity - Montreal
- Organization event: Forum social québécois
- Enhance human compassion and promote peace through spiritual practice: One1
- Promote philanthropy: The Internet Fundraising Foundation
- Support services to community organizations: Centre for Community Organizations (COCo)
- Supporting community life and peace building in the Plateau: House of friendship

International cooperation

- Fair trade: Ten Thousand Villages
- Humanitarian aid: Medical Aid for Palestine
- International development: Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation
- Third world human rights development: Social Justice Committee