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We have opportunities for individual volunteers or groups in the greenhouse, gardens and during special events. No prior experience is required -- just a desire to learn about nature and to convey your knowledge to our visitors!

Contact our Director of Volunteers for details.

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Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Planting	10	n/a	n/a

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Care about fighting local poverty, giving youth opportunities and building strong communities? If your answer is YES, then put together a team and do a DAY OF CARING®. United Way Greater Toronto’s (UWGT) DAY OF CARING provides community-minded individuals like you the opportunity to team up with your co-workers to complete volunteer projects, contributing to the amazing work happening across the region—vital work that is strengthening communities and changing people’s lives.

DAY OF CARING projects focus on moving people from poverty to possibility, helping kids and youth be successful and building strong neighbourhoods across Peel, Toronto and York Region.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES MAY INCLUDE:

• Serving meals to isolated seniors or the homeless
• Reading to preschoolers
• Cleaning and tidying up a shelter or food-storage area
• Helping to maintain a youth facility or community garden
• Organizing a collection of items (e.g., hygiene products, school supplies)

CONSIDERATIONS:

• TIMING: Projects are available year-round and can be done in half-day sessions (9:00am - 12:00pm or 1:00pm - 4:00pm) or full-day sessions (9:00am - 4:00pm).
• GROUP SIZE: Average group size is 5-7 volunteers; however, there are some projects available for smaller groups (2-4) or larger groups (10-20).
• LOCATION: The volunteer projects happen mostly outside the office, at agencies in communities (across Peel, Toronto and York Region) where the need is greatest. There are also options for those who cannot leave the office.
• CAUTION: We cannot guarantee a project, if requests are sent with less than 20 business days’ notice. Projects are booked on a first-come, first-served basis.

BOOK A DAY OF CARING®:

1. Email dayofcaring@uwgt.org for a Day of Caring request form
2. Fill out the form and email it to dayofcaring@uwgt.org (note: a minimum of 20 business days is required)

QUESTIONS?

Contact United Way Greater Toronto’s Donor Engagement team at dayofcaring@uwgt.org or 416.777.1444 x 647.

THANK YOU for helping to support United Way's efforts in the community! We look forward to working with you.

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The C&O Canal Trust welcomes business and corporate groups for a fun half day experience volunteering in a beautiful National Park environment! We can scale activities for groups ranging in size from 15-100 at a number of sites within the C&O Canal National Historical Park. Past projects have included trash cleanups, painting projects, invasive vegetation removal, and campground restoration. Get your employees out of the office and into the sunshine for team-bonding, morale improvement, and community service out on the C&O Canal! Children may be included in the group that are ages 12+. To inquire about dates and possible projects for your group, please contact volunteer@canaltrust.org or call 301-745-8888.

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League of Wilderness Defenders does most of monitoring and rare/threatened species survey work in the summer and early fall season. However, LOWD also does some pre-survey work and training during the rain and snow season. The picture below is a red rock rainforest of Siskiyou Mts of southwest Oregon.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Systemic Change Gap Analysis: Systemic change is a toolset for thinking about impact. CrowdDoing (www.advancesocialinnovation.org/crowddoing) is a collaborative effort that aims to scale social innovations towards systemic change goals such that Sustainable Development Goals become achievable. If you haven't heard of systemic innovation, Nesta in the UK held a discussion of it (https://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/systemic-innovation-discussion-series). Our impact potential analysis team looks at the gap between a scenario in which a social innovation plays a meaningful modest role in social innovation and the potential for that social innovation under certain scenarios to play a transformative role in social challenges. Social innovation gap analysis is a pre-cursor to Systemic Change Gap Analysis along with Systemic Change Asset Mapping. Our volunteers collaborate in teams with project managers and human resource business partners virtually across time zones and countries.

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Gateway to the Great Outdoors needs help in crafting a 5-year business plan. GGO has rapidly been growing and we need a well-crafted plan to

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Get ready to help us plant a native garden at our one acre urban garden and orchard at Markham Middle School in Watts.

We took a dormant piece a property which was once a thriving orchard and garden at this middle school in the community Watts, known as a food desert to create green space and food for all.

This day will be filled with learning why natives in a garden and how to plant as well as harvesting some tasty treats!

Even if you don't think you have a green thumb you are welcome. Ages 6 and up as well as all skill levels.

We will have some breakfast treats and cold drinks for you.

Come ready to make new friends and play in the soil with us!

Wear pants - meaning no shorts
Comfortable shoes
Hat
Sunscreen
reusable water bottle

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Nicole Landers	15	n/a	n/a

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CrowdDoing is seeking through CrowdDoing E-Learning Podcast Project Management Creation Volunteers Needed. We podcasts about our service learning courses for project managers that use projects relevant to the global social challenges and to managing for multiple stakeholders as the examples. We're creating animation-based online service learning-based courses and need animation experts to help us create the content.We would have the goal to shift how project managers think about managing stakeholder interests through animated courses.Our aim is a portfolio of e-learning service learning course options having a series of free content publicly and paid content at more advanced levels which would still be free to our volunteers. Our goal would be democratizing the skills of managing stakeholder interests rather than stakeholder perceptions management through effective learning-oriented animations. CrowdDoing E-Learning Project Management Podcast Creation Volunteers Needed. We're aiming to get podcasts online courses in project management to address the UN SDGs through effective project management of stakeholder interests. Our podcasts will orient to our forthcoming series of mini-courses around dependency analysis, agile project management, project management in complex situations, project management and human capital planning, project management and creativity, project management and stakeholder collaboration, project management and coordination, project management and virtual team development, project management and timeline planning, project management and expectations, project management and requirements gathering for impact, project management for social innovation, project management for shared value, project management for Corporate Social Responsibility. 10 hours a week or more of podcast creation time to help develop mini-courses and longer online courses. CrowdDoing has dozens of internal and external projects that need project managers. This is an initiative to create animations and narrative ways of showing different challenges in managing projects with multiple stakeholders and managing projects that align to SDG goals. Video production for e-learning skills as a role is key to our helping train project managers. The videos will help us in our e-course series on impact project management.

You can learn more about CrowdDoing with the below:
1. Arcimoto Impact Report (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGVVFWOGRkZFg5bWRkV0g1V0lmUWcxRFFxZFcw/view?usp=sharing)
2. CrowdDoing Partner FAQ
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGTDQyeTBjc2ZnMV81elRxVFpLaDNRdFJFSEFZ/view?usp=sharing) 3. CrowdDoing overview
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGWkZfSFJJMXBWZ1RsdEZNbjVCejlIYTBzc0lB/view?usp=sharing

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CrowdDoing needs CrowdDoing Content Marketing/Search Engine Optimization professionals to help us reach prospective volunteers and CSR partners. This CrowdDoing Content Marketing/Search Engine Optimization role is to review marketing strategies currently under way and to help us develop new ones. Our purpose of CrowdDoing Content Marketing/Search Engine Optimization at CrowdDoing is to help the social enterprise sector. www.advancesocialinnovation.org/crowddoing. We deploy volunteers in virtual working groups. This role is for CrowdDoing marketing analysts. Volunteers should expect to volunteer at least an average of 5 hours a week, and commit to at least 6 months of volunteering. CrowdDoing Content Marketing/Search Engine Optimization should have experience in content marketing, content writing, marketing, communications, keyword research, neologism design and/or other relevant skills.

1. Arcimoto Impact Report (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGVVFWOGRkZFg5bWRkV0g1V0lmUWcxRFFxZFcw/view?usp=sharing)
2. CrowdDoing Partner FAQ
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGTDQyeTBjc2ZnMV81elRxVFpLaDNRdFJFSEFZ/view?usp=sharing) 3. CrowdDoing overview
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfhAjsxaIGWkZfSFJJMXBWZ1RsdEZNbjVCejlIYTBzc0lB/view?usp=sharing