Find Opportunities / Find Volunteers
Local volunteer centres often provide opportunities for your organization to post volunteer openings. Contact the centre in your region for more information. The following organizations and programs are great sources for either organizations looking for volunteers or volunteers seeking positions.
Recruitment - Best practices
- Volunteer Recruitment - Community Sector Council Newfoundland and Labrador
- Volunteer Recruitment: Tips from the Field - University of Texas at Austin (US)
Diversity & Inclusive Recruitment
- Cultural Diverstiy in Volunteer Management: a web guide from The Government of Ontario
- A Guide for Cultural Competency Application of the Canadian Code(Ontario Volunteer Center Network, 2009).
- Giving and volunteering among Canada’s immigrants.By Derrick Thomas (Statistics Canada, 2012)
Screening
- What is Screening? - Volunteer Canada
- The Screening Handbook - Volunteer Canada
- Safe enough? Reviewing your screening practices- Volunteer Canada
- Understanding police records checks - Volunteer Canada
- Screening Process: Creating a Culture for Volunteer Involvement - Volunteer Alberta
- Best Practice Guidelines for Screening Volunteers - Public Safety Canada
- Initial Screening Tools (Linda Graff)
- The Short Course on Screening Protocol Design (Linda Graff)
- It's Never Over: Ongoing Screening of Volunteers and Paid Staff (Linda Graff)