Areas of interest
Areas of Interest
The following is a list of examples related to each Area of Interest.
You are welcome to select more that one area of interest.
- Animals: care for animals, visit others with your animal.
- Arts & Crafts: work with children, decorate for special events, work in a day camp setting, design displays or bulletin boards, needlecrafts, woodworking, face painting.
- Boards and Committees: offer expertise in areas such as human resources, legal matters, accounting, planning, fundraising and marketing.
- Caring Support: friendly visitor, one on one support, listener, shopper, porter, reading to others, hairdressing and manicures.
- Children/ Youth: work with children (preschoolers and youth), work with children and youth with a physical or developmental disability, work in a classroom setting, work in a day camp setting and peer support/mentor.
- Communication/Public Relation: work with the public, hand out flyers, work at information booths at malls and community centres, work on a committee related to marketing an organization and their events.
- Computers: data entry, website design, graphic design of newsletters, computer programming and computer training.
- Counseling: telephone crisis line, mediation service, group/individual support,support group facilitators and spiritual guidance.
- Culture/Heritage/Museum: assistance with theatrical production (director, actor, stage support, puppeteer or usher), interpreter at a museum or historic location, assistance at gallery or museum, and historical research.
- Driver: drive seniors to programs and appointments, drive children and parents to programs and appointments, deliver food or other items.
- Event Planning/ Fundraising: assist with bingo, door to door canvassing, serve on a fundraising committee and plan events, research into grants and funding options.
- Food Services: food service (prepare and serve/sell food, pack food hampers, set up and clean up of food areas), retail sales (handle cash, serve customers, price items, arrange displays, stock shelves).
- Gardening/Environment: weed, plant, water, landscape design, green space preservation and environmental research.
- Health Care: presentations related to health, volunteer in hospital or senior resident environments, and volunteer with a team for Emergency Response.
- Library: deliver books to elderly, catalogue books and toys, and maintain resource library.
- Maintenance: skilled trades, basic home maintenance, painting, woodworking and cleaning.
- Management: accounting, bookkeeping, volunteer management and consultation on policy and procedures.
- Office Work: reception, greeting clients and/or visitors, photocopying, filing, data entry, working on computers, typing, stuffing envelopes, preparing mailings, library or work with legal/corrections.
- Recreation/Sports: recreation (swimming, skating, dance, fitness programs) and leisure activities (playing cards and other games), community outings, sports (basketball, soccer).
- Retail Sales/Donation: gift wrapping, flower sales, concession attendant, donation distribution and food hamper assistant.
- Seniors: programs serving persons over the age of 65, support for shut in’s and persons in nursing care, senior summer and winter games committee.
- Special Events: festivals, garage sales, gift wrapping, car washes, runs, food drives, golf tournaments and one/two day events.
- Teaching/Tutoring: one to one tutor or teacher of literacy, English as a Second Language, academic topics (such as math, science, English, French) and computer skills.
- Maintenance: skilled trades, basic home maintenance, painting, woodworking and cleaning.
- Management: accounting, bookkeeping, volunteer management and consultation on policy and procedures.
- Office Work: reception, greeting clients and/or visitors, photocopying, filing, data entry, working on computers, typing, stuffing envelopes, preparing mailings, library or work with legal/corrections.
- Recreation/Sports: recreation (swimming, skating, dance, fitness programs) and leisure activities (playing cards and other games), community outings, sports (basketball, soccer).
- Retail Sales/Donation: gift wrapping, flower sales, concession attendant, donation distribution and food hamper assistant.
- Seniors: programs serving persons over the age of 65, support for shut in’s and persons in nursing care, senior summer and winter games committee.
- Special Events: festivals, garage sales, gift wrapping, car washes, runs, food drives, golf tournaments and one/two day events.
- Teaching/Tutoring: one to one tutor or teacher of literacy, English as a Second Language, academic topics (such as math, science, English, French) and computer skills.
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