Katimavik offers youth between the ages of 17 and 21 an exciting six-to-nine-month journey of self-discovery in two or three different Canadian regions. The program is based on the concept of voluntary service learning, which promotes the personal, professional and social development of young Canadians through volunteer work and group living.

Cette campagne qui fait, encore cette année, la promotion d'activités bénévoles dites moins conventionnelles, n'a pas coûté un seul sou (création, production et diffusion) au CABM! Un méga merci aux Activités philanthropiques de Québecor et à Axel Perez de Leon, graphiste bénévole au CABM depuis quatre ans.

Charity Tax Tools is a free comprehensive information website with easy-to-understand content developed by Imagine Canada that will provide Canadian charities with timely information and tools to ensure they have the resources to meet Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requirements.

The VBM is over 1,000 organizations looking for volunteers. Help in recruting volunteers, a web site for matching volunteers to organizations, volunteer fairs, consulting in volunteer resource management and a resource library are among the services offered for free to our client organizations.

Agencies wishing to offer some visibility to the VBM in exchange for these services can:

If you would like to help out with the humanitarian relief efforts underway in Haiti, please follow the links below:

 

Volunteer Week, April 18 to 24, 2010, is the time for community organizations to honour their volunteers and remind the public of volunteerism's important contribution to the well-being of our society. Each year, the Fédération des centres d'action bénévole du Québec (FCABQ) produces a variety of Volunteer Week promotional materials which the Volunteer Bureau in turn supplies to local organizations.

 

Canadians will donate more money to charity and give more of their time as volunteers to non-profit organizations, according to an Investors Group poll being released today. 29% of Canadians surveyed say they plan to donate more time to worthwhile causes in 2010 while 19% plan to give more money to charity.

Each year, Centraide of Greater Montreal bestows four awards among the 360 community agencies in its network to acknowledge the excellence of their achievements. Renewing practices, reinventing approaches, or implementing new projects are all actions that deserve recognition! These staff members and volunteers never rest and give tirelessly of themselves day after day for the well-being of 500,000 people, a commitment that is indeed worthy of reward! Application deadline: January 29, 2010

 

OurSharedResources.org is a new and free service for those who work in the field of supporting and managing volunteers. In a nutshell, anyone can add useful (and free) resources so that others in the field can access them. The aim is to avoid re-inventing the wheel time and time again.

As many of you probably know, the Government of Canada has brought out a new study guide for immigrants called Discover Canada. This initiative has been the subject of quite a bit of press coverage and commentary - mostly focused on the fact that Discover Canada is much more detailed than earlier documents of its sort.