A community's life depends on the volunteers who care for and love the community.  Here are some places to volunteer to have a positive impact on our community and to have some great experiences.

Norquay School

132 Lusted Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R2W 2P2  ~ Marlene Wood, Family Room ~ 943-8715 ~ Fax:  943-4715 ~  mwood@wsd1.org

Volunteer Opportunities:

• People who will come on a regular basis will be offered training to work with kids

• Volunteers to read to and with children

• FAST (families and schools together) 8 week program, each family cooks for one week with help of parent partner from school. Served by volunteers, tables cleaned by volunteers, kids cared for by volunteers, help with set-up. Takes place April 10 each year 

• Volunteer to set up phone tree

• For field days, to run snack stations

• Health fair - help at snack station, serve food to parents

• Role models for employment, people who can come in and talk to the kids about their careers, hobbies, etc.                 

• Be a buddy for kids who really need it, come by on a consistent schedule and just be a companion, reading, share a hot chocolate. This commitment needs to be firm, as kids count on it to be consistent

• Knows how to frame pictures, to get more kids’ art on the walls

• Boys and girls club has volunteers, join them

• Summer enrichment program needs high school kids, university kids, skilled people like potters, other artists

• Set up a chess or checkers club. Kids will try anything and will come again if they like the person

• Physical activities as simple as double-Dutch skipping

• Classroom volunteers (must be on a regular basis) staff concern is lack of follow-through. Volunteers must commit to the times promised.

• Snack program daily 10 to 11, students deliver snacks to classroom. The volunteers in the classroom would prepare the snacks for the kids right there in the classroom and clean up afterwards.

• Volunteers to prepare things for the classroom – cutting, pasting, etc.

• Field trips, special occasions

• When kids doing art, extra pair of hands helpful

• Breakfast program always has a line-up, and while kids are waiting, read to them, open up the gym, etc.

• Coaching kids in sports

• Seniors tutoring kids, kids helping seniors in exchange
   

Eagle Wing Early Education Centre

Pre-school daycare at 49 Euclid Ave. ~ School-age Daycare at Norquay School, 132 Lusted Ave. 
Angel Peterson, Acting Executive Director – 947-9411 ~ eaglewingad@mts.net

Volunteer Opportunities:

• A pool of people to call on short notice to sub or volunteer when someone is away.

• Need kitchen help (preparing snacks)

• Cleaning people for pre-school daycare at 49 Euclid and school-age daycare at Norquay (indoors and outdoors)

• A handyman to help with maintenance and repairs

• School-age daycare needs volunteers at peak periods morning and afternoon
   

SISTARS ~ (Sisters Initiating Steps Toward A Renewed Society)

SISTARS is a non-gender specific organization established by a group of women in the community that aims to remove economic, social and bureaucratic barriers to women's self empowerment. Among its accomplishments is the founding of Eagle Wing Early Education Centre, our community daycare.
Sandy Dzedzora, 943-0815 ~ dzedzora@mts.net

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Men or women with skills such as:

  • Proposal writing

  • Marketing and promotion skills

  • Legal skills/knowledge

  • Public relations skills

  • Volunteer recruiting

  • Fund raising

The Point Community News

Mary Mathias, Editor – 942-6811 ~ Email:  thepoint.editor@pointdouglas.ca

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Writers, photographers for the newsletter

• Writers and contributors from South Point Douglas

• Volunteers to distribute copies of The Point to businesses
   

 Age & Opportunity/Main St. Senior Centre

1085 Main St. ~ Aileen George, Centre Facilitator ~942-7486 ~  norwin@ageopportunity.mb.ca

Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer office staff 

•  A fitness leader, for regular fitness activities for seniors, classes and training available.

• Friendly visitors, companionship, sit and listen, help garden, have tea, phone them just to say hi

• Snow shoveling in the winter - need someone they can trust who’s available.

• Someone to play cards with

• A walking club

• Literacy/English language training for seniors A&O has free classes, class helpers needed

• Computer coaches, able to assist older adults with questions about using their computers

Point Douglas Seniors Coalition (contact Aileen George, 942-7486)

 Volunteer Opportunities:

• Volunteer drivers for older adults who can’t drive, to get them to things they’d like to go to as well as things they need to go to; grocery shopping, social events

• A fitness leader, for regular fitness activities for seniors, classes and training available.

• Need dietician advice, volunteer could work with dietician

• Educators -  people willing to go out and show a video and chat, e.g. home safety, avoiding falls, etc.

• Someone to go to appointments with seniors

• Someone to play cards with

• Snow shoveling in the winter - need someone they can trust who’s available

• Volunteers to teach prevention; interaction between medications and alcohol, health issues

•  A van to take volunteers to the grandma/kid swim program, from this community

• Home cleaning, handyman for things that need doing once in a while, fridge, stove, basement cleaning, garage, helping through times of illness, newspaper pileup etc.

• Escorting people to community events

• Food security; for people who live alone, not inspired to eat or shop properly, help in planning menus, cooking with seniors

• Someone to organize distribution network for getting news out to seniors when needed

• Someone to organize a walking club

• Computer coaches, able to assist older adults with questions about using their computers

Graffiti Gallery Programming  

109 Higgins   ~ 667-9960 ~ Roslyn Dally, General Manager ~  gm@graffitiGallery.ca

Volunteer Opportunities:

• More parent volunteers, encourages parents to bond with their kids. Gives kids a different perspective on their parents

• Youth volunteers to mentor younger people. We now have a youth program and have kids who are in a position to mentor and this will develop into employment opportunities Electricians, builders, repair people

• Volunteer coordinator

• Fundraiser

• Campaigning for Point Douglas food bank, youth want to do it

• Need adult volunteer to coordinate food bank

• Volunteers for the office

• Volunteers for our various events/programs: summer art camp, art shows

• Volunteers for illegal graffiti vandalism removal in North Point Douglas

North Point Douglas Women’s Centre

 221 Austin St North ~ Elaine Bishop ~947-0321 ~  npdirector@mts.net

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Need admin assistant

• Need a cleaner

• Need volunteers to help provide programming

• Volunteer to work with participants, to be in drop-in area to greet people as they come in, to hang out, get to know people, be prepared to build relationships

• Maintenance man, handyman

• Need male volunteers for Women’s Centre during open hours

• Need volunteer for Saturday open hours

• Fund raising volunteers, kids want to have a bake sale to raise money for their outings

• Volunteers to watch over the school patrols. Youth Outreach Workers usually do this, but are not always there. Need morning, noon and after-school eyes on the street.

• Need volunteers for Safety workshops

Community Garden/Recreation

PDRC Office ~ 927-3827 ~ pdrc@pointdouglas.ca

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Community Garden:

• People interested in starting a community garden

• Volunteers to teach people about gardening, preserving, canning

• Volunteer to coordinate plant exchange for yards and gardens
   

• People interested in outdoor activities:

  • spending time with kids and other adults; Skiing, snowshoeing, camping, outdoor cooking, ice fishing, swimming, hiking, canoeing.

  • A walking club, with or without dogs

  •  Volunteer to organize a men’s fishing club and other social activities
     

Boys & Girls Club of Winnipeg,  Norquay

Norquay School ~ 132 Lusted Ave. ~ Alana Squire ~952-1859 ~ alana__s@hotmail.com

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Need adults to escort kids home from programs

• Need volunteers to contact parents to remind their kids to come to the 10-week programs

• Have staff take staggered breaks so they don’t have to close and lose kids (there’s an early program and a later in the eve program so staff gets a break between the two sessions)

• Need volunteers for ‘walking school bus’ to pick kids up on foot

• Need volunteer to gather feedback from parents on:

  •  how kids can commit to programs, see what the parents have to say,

  • How best to educate parents on enhanced programs and skill building.

  • Feedback from parents on positive changes from kids attending club,  to learn how the club can work with the parents to benefit the kids and the family as a whole

• Teen alumni who’ve been past participants of Boys & Girls Club, to come and work with current kids,

• Be involved in community service with the kids, young leaders in training,

• A once-a-week evening drop-in, for teens who’ve had to leave Norquay and go off to high schools outside the community, to help kids in grade 6 transition to high school, a mentoring capacity. Contact parents of kids who’ve moved on and find out what kinds of difficulties they’ve faced in going to the high schools
   

Norquay Community Centre

65 Granville St ~ Denis and Rita Richard, Val Himkowski ~ 943-6897 ~ nccentre@mts.net  

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Need adult supervision for kids in the  Multi-purpose room upstairs (pool, ping pong, foosball, TV and movies, books, board games, colouring).

• Volunteers needed for field trips in summer only

• Volunteers to drive kids to team sports

• Need coaches and assistant coaches, timekeepers, scorekeepers, referees

• Would like to see student mentors to help the Grade 5 and 6 kids transition to junior high school

• Need volunteers for fund raising events

• Volunteers any evening just to hang out and be another adult for kids to talk to

• Need volunteers to start a girls or boys club
   

Point Douglas Residents Committee

Below are listed the various volunteer-run committees operating under the Residents Committee. Anyone is welcome to join these committees.

Environmental Committee:    Tyson Cormack ~

Volunteer Opportunities: 

• Volunteers for year-round community clean-up – picking up garbage and making note of any large items on their route that the city needs to come and take away

• Making note of graffiti, dirty yards, broken windows, etc.

• Volunteers needed on committee to manage community signage and beautification project (Entranceways into Point Douglas, etc.)

• Volunteers needed to do work as designated by the committee

Housing Committee:   

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Someone to go around the neighbourhood after the first of every month and note rental housing and ‘For Sale’ signs

• Someone to note broken windows, unkempt properties, newly boarded up houses, etc.

• People to possibly help landlords repair and maintain their properties

• Volunteers to conduct streets and alleys inspection

• Need mentors who have had fix up grants to help others who haven't, to help go through the process

 Safety Committee:   

Need a Safety Committee

Residents Committee Office:     927-3827~General office email: pdrc@pointdouglas.ca

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Volunteers needed to pick up items donated to the Residents Committee and deliver them to people in the community

• Volunteers to help maintain Rental Properties registry by touring neighbourhood monthly to update rental properties available

• Volunteers to assist property owners in maintenance and repair of rental properties

• Handyman for minor home repairs

• House cleaning help for people in the community

• Volunteers to assist with Welcome Neighbour program

• A tall volunteer to go around to the playgrounds in summer time to make sure the swings haven’t been thrown up and wrapped around the top bars, and clean off the slides

• Volunteers for Snow Angels – to shovel snow for elderly and handicapped

• Volunteers to take people without cars shopping, or pick them up afterwards

• Adult volunteers in summer time to supervise kids in parks and playgrounds, work in pairs

• Year-round community clean-up

• Clean up for the river trail, done in teams of two

• Volunteers to become a big sister or big brother, through that organization

• Volunteers for child minding at day time programs such as Moms & Tots

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