Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick
March 16, 2020
Due to COVID-19 restrictions of large groups and the closure of the Casino NB including the Convention Centre the NVW Recognition Breakfast will not be held on April 23, 2020. If you have already purchased tickets you will be contacted directly.
Thank you for helping make our community a safe place!
NVW Breakfast Committee, Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc.
To: Greater Moncton Non-Profit Organizations
Nationally this is the week that we thank and pay tribute to all of Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers! Our local community non-profits will be looking at ways to honour those individuals that volunteer with so many of our programs and services. We may not be able to have face to to face ‘Recognition/Celebration’ events due to the Pandemic; however, still want to ‘pay tribute’ to our volunteers. Volunteer Canada has worked with several non-profit’s across the Country and has created a blog describing the many ways you can ‘virtually thank’ community volunteers {link above}.
Volunteer Canada’s theme for NVW 2020 is ‘It is time to Applaud Canada’s Volunteers’ and I would like to take this opportunity to ‘Applaud all of Greater Moncton’s Volunteers’ – keep up the great work that you do in making us all proud to be part of such a caring community!
Who We Are
The Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. is a registered charitable organization. Through the promotion of volunteering, the center supports over 150 registered not-for-profit agencies/organizations from the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview areas by responding to requests for recruitment community volunteers. It has been active for over 40 years.
Our commitment
- Deliver creative solutions to serve the needs of the community.
- Promote volunteering, coordinate resources and people…
Volunteers Needed
We are recruiting for In-House Volunteer Greeters for our office. One morning 9 to 12 or one afternoon 1 to 4 a week would be ideal. Position would greet those coming to the office and may involve some administration tasls, for example, putting together information packages, updating files. data input, etc. {depending on volunteer’s experience} – All volunteers Welcome!
Interested volunteers please contact Debbi leBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator at 869-6905 or by e-mail at d.leblanc@volunteergreatermoncton.com
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteering is rewarding.
You can:
- Learn more about the community and what it has to offer
- Create practical work experience
- Enjoy the feeling of making a contribution
- Meet people and build new relationships
To volunteer, you may fill out a general application form or choose from the volunteer positions posted in the next section and fill out the specific application form.
Recently added volunteer opportunities.
As a newcommer, your benefits of becoming a volunteer…
Information Flyer… PDF
Application form for newcommers
Volunteering in your new community
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VOLUNTEERS needed
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Personal Disaster Assistance (PDA) Responder / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
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Personal Disaster Assistance (PDA) Supervisor / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
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Emergency Response Team (ERT) Supervisor / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
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Emergency Response Team (ERT) Responder / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
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Technicien ou technicienne, Santé communautaire, HELP adm (FR) / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
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Technicien ou technicienne, Santé communautaire, HELP (FR) / Canadian Red Cross / Application form
Recruiting drivers for all areas of Westmorland and Albert County
If you have a few hours a week and would like to help your neighbour or someone in need of transportation, we are currently looking for Volunteer Drivers. Volunteer Drivers can make such a difference in somone’s life by driving them to a medical appointment, food bank, or shopping, etc.
Drivers’ are reimbursed reimubursed 0.35 c/kilometre and must complete screening requirements.
If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer Driver, please contact 962-3073.
We need Several volunteers
Food DEPOT Alimentaire (FDA) is a registered non-profit charity that services more than 30 agencies including food banks, community soup kitchens, supportive organizations and school lunch/after-school programs in southeastern New Brunswick. We need your help.
DRIVER REQUIREMENTS
FDA operates three delivery trucks from our warehouse. Driver’s license certification for 5 Ton (Class 5 *air brakes), Class 5 for Cube Vans, driving abstracts and a demonstration of ability will be required prior to drivers being allowed to operate the delivery trucks.
FDA certified personnel will assist potential drivers/operators to become qualified by providing equipment orientation sessions. FDA equipment and vehicles shall be operated by authorized personnel only who are expected to accept responsibility for the safe operation of the equipment or vehicle at all times.
Contact: Ken.Canning@fooddepot.ca
FORK LIFT AND POWER JACKS
Valid certificate of training and a demonstration of ability will be required prior to operation of warehouse forklift. We use Power Jacks in our warehouse as well as hand jacks, training is provided and steel toe foot ware is a requirement.
Contact Ken.canning@fooddepot.ca
SORTING OF FOOD PRODUCTS
Volunteers in our Warehouse sort and mark off bar codes of the food we collect from food drives, as well as food collected on a daily basis from our local stores and businesses, cans and dry goods are checked for expiry dates and damages. Volunteers help in the preparation of food orders that we send to 33 Agencies in South East New Brunswick.
Contact: Ken.canning@fooddepot.ca
FOOD DRIVES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
Several times per year Food Depot Alimentaire has on site events where we collect food and donations, Volunteers greet people and accept the food with the assistance of FDA staff, it is then brought back to our warehouse on 330 MacNaughton Ave for processing.
Contact Chantal.Senecal@fooddepot.ca
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:
Volunteers would assist our Administrative Manager with Filing of receipts, answering phones, and light office duties as well as recording and tracking of volunteer hours
Contact: Chantal.senecal@fooddepot.ca
VOLUNTEERS FOR LIGHT DUTY CLEANING
Our warehouse offices require light duty dusting and cleaning a few times per week, there is no heavy lifting required and any help is greatly appreciated.
Contact: Ken.canning@fooddepot.ca
In need of BOARD MEMBERS
Our Mission:
Family and Early Childhood Anglophone East Inc. is committed to assisting parents with the challenging task or raising young children according to their individual needs and potential
VALUES:
INTEGRITY: professionalism built on competence, confidentiality and transparency
Education: Inspiring the building of knowledge, skills and connections
RELATIONSHIP WELLNESS: with self and others built upon respect for individual strengths, differences, and priorities.
We apply these values in our work and champion them in our community.
Clientele:
Families with children from Birth through eight who have a moderate to high developmental delay, or who are at risk for the same.
Services: for said families
- In-home support and intervention for children and parents needs
- Groups addressing various areas of parenting; developmental and behavioral practises
- Attachment therapy
- Overseeing and approving Developmental Child Care in Early Learning Centres
- Administering the EYE-DA and offering follow-up services for those children who identified as meeting criteria for our service
A not-for-profit agency with a contract for service contract from the Department of Education
Our board consists or 12 individuals with diverse backgrounds.
Meetings are held once a month with non during July and August
We are seeking candidates who may be interested in serving their community in a volunteer capacity. We would like to have board members with some expertise in the following areas but would also encourage others with different areas of interest,
- Media and communications
- Human Resources
- Legal/Governance
- Advocacy
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Phone: (506)853-3061 (Local) OR 1-855-238-3694 (Toll Free) / Fax: (506) 853-0600
50 Cameron Street, Suite 102, Moncton NB, E1C 9A9
BOARD RECRUITMENT
For 30 years, ENSEMBLE has been helping people who live with complex social challenges.
Our vision is to build a community that fosters diversity, inclusion and health through empowerment and hope. Although we remain at the front line of infectious disease prevention, our work has expanded to include building alliances among other service providers. Our message is that we are all in this together.
Do you spend time thinking about the welfare of others? Want to build a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth to live, learn and love safely? Are you concerned about the effects of the opioid crisis on your community? Yes? Then ENSEMBLE’s Board is looking for new members just like you! We need your ideas, your perspective, and your voice.
As a Board member you will help shape the changes and set the tone for the organization’s future. Your commitment is to nine monthly meetings of two hours or less, plus one to two special meetings for a three-year period.
To find out how you can join the ENSEMBLE Board, please call (506) 859-9616. Ask to speak with Michael Zinck (President) or Debby Warren (Executive Director).
Volunteers wanted
Volunteers wanted for Meals on Wheels Moncton and Dieppe
We need your help
The new centre helps 1,500 low-income families in the Moncton area. We need your help.
Several volunteer opportunities
VOLUNTEER INTAKE GREETER
To greet the clients as they enter the center or call, and ensure they have an appointment and direct them to waiting are to go into intake. Key responsibilities would be: to provide an environment that is safe and non-judgmental, make appointments over phone or walk-ins, ensure that coffee/tea/snacks are available for clients, keeping the area of that station tidy and clean. If the clients list of the day have any reviews scheduled, collecting files from cabinet to ensure that the intake worker receives when the client is called in then return those files at the end of day. Other duties if required, subject to changes.
Qualifications: Excellent customer service skills, Strong communication skills, maintain a positive non-judgmental attitude, Computer skills an asset.
Please contact Monica at 804-4941
INTAKE WORKER/REVIEWER
This volunteer will meet one on one with the client, which will take place in a private office space allocated for that purpose for confidentiality. Key responsibilities; reviewer may be required to do a financial assessment to reveal the need for the visits to the center for service and offer information and resources. Verifies client is registered in the computer system using their current up to date NB Medicare card for the individual and the others in household if any, verifies the current address. Input info for communicating the notes pertinent to the client and appointment for following visit, food count is recorded
Subject to change, other duties as required
Qualifications: Excellent customer service skills, strong communication skills, positive attitude and non-judgmental, computer skills an asset
Please contact Monica at 804-4941
FRONT CENTER DISTRIBUTOR/WORKER
These volunteers will be able to work well with others, maintain a positive non-judgmental attitude, good communication skills adaptable to change, follow direction from team leaders that we have designated to provide the day to day requirements of product distribution etc. May have duties change on day to day and then helping others if you see the need once you are through for cleaning, defrosting freezers, cleaning lunch area
Qualifications: Ability to follow direction and work as team player, Have a positive attitude, energetic, some mobility, reaching, bending, lifting
Please contact Monica at 804-4941
BACK CENTER DISTRIBUTOR/ WAREHOUSE WORKER
The receiving of shipments working with the volunteer from warehouse deliveries, and other sources of deliveries there will be a need to wear proper outerwear, footwear weather pending. Needs to have the ability to have a good communication with all other workers to inform the product information, quantity and other. There is a day to day change and adaptability to the changes and other working volunteers. Team player is a must. Ability to move, bend, lift, fast paced at times environment
Other Key responsibilities: Clean work space, safety and respect for others working, creating crates and following food guides for expiry or other conditions to be safe. Work flow for everyone sharing that work space. Replenishing out front stock as needed, product code marking, sorting, packing, repacking, portioning.
And any other duties as required and subject to change
Qualifications: Ability to follow direction well and adapt to change, work as a team player and liaison between center and depot at times , physically challenging at times, lifting, bending, reaching, keeping area clean and tidy maintain always fire exit clearings. Maintain a positive attitude.
Please contact Monica at 804-4941
GARDEN CARETAKERS
Volunteers can be responsible for overall maintenance of the front garden beds, property landscape, and the Community Garden in the back. Duties include pulling weeds, prepping soil, adding soil, planting, watering and tending to the plants, cleaning the parking lot and grass area, picking up garbage around the property, other general cleaning and care taking.
Time requirement- one to 5 shifts per week Please contact Chantal Executive Director Chantal.senecal@fooddepot.ca
FACILITATORS
Volunteers can develop and facilitate mini workshops on subjects related to food security, finances, mental health, and basic life skills.
Time requirement – as schedule allows. Please contact Chantal Executive Director Chantal.senecal@fooddepot.ca
KITCHEN CATALYST
A volunteer that would like to lead a group of community members in an activity that utilizes the Medavie Community Kitchen and aligns with its mandate. Have an idea for an activity or group? Have kitchen expertise? The Medavie Community Kitchen is looking for facilitators and program leaders to fill out its activity calendar. Please contact our kitchen coordinator at adam.obrien@fooddepot.ca
KITCHEN COMMUNITY CREW
Any one who wants to participate in the Medavie Community Kitchen. No expertise or cooking skill needed. Just a positive attitude and a will to help. From food preservation, community meals, fundraising and more; the Medavie Community Kitchen will need an amazing crew to work! To join the Crew, contact our kitchen coordinator at adam.obrien@fooddepot.ca
Family Enrolment Support
The Military Family Resource Centre is looking for volunteers to assist at military enrolment ceremonies around the province of New Brunswick, specifically in Moncton and Saint John. Responsibilities for this volunteer role would include welcoming the families of the new military member and offering them information about the services the MFRC offers and our role in supporting the family. We would also ask that the family be presented the military family insignia and be told the significance of being a part of the military community. Training for this opportunity will be provided.
If you are interested in assisting with this opportunity please sign up or contact
Shannon.nowell@forces.gc.ca
Here is the link to the our volunteer site, and application form.
Family Enrolment application form
CSC volunteers
Join the many Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) volunteers who are making a difference every day and contribute to the safety of your community.
CSC is committed to achieving a skilled, diverse volunteer base that reflects the cultural diversity of our offender population.
Community volunteers help released offenders re-adjust to life in the community.
CSC Community volunteers:
- Act as a positive role model
- Work with offenders from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds
- Help offenders access services to re-direct their lives into our communities
- Play an important role in the rehabilitation process.
If you are over the age of majority in your province and are willing to undergo security screening and training, you could have what it takes to be a CSC Volunteer.
Contact Jill Esson via e-mail districtcommunityvolunteer.gen-atl@csc-scc.gc.ca for further information.
Kitchen helpers needed
Require two people each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11AM to 1 pm to assist in serving food or cleaning dishes. lunch included. Very rewarding work helping us feed 150 + people a day who need a hot meal.
QUALIFICATIONS
Requirements: 16 years of age +
13-17 with adult supervision
Fully Accessible Workplace
Language for the opportunity: English and French are an asset
IDEAL FOR: Anyone
TRAINING PROVIDED
LOCATIONS
Basement St. John’s United Church, corner of Alma and Victoria
Person in charge of volunteer:
Bruce Lawson, Manager
506 854-3837
karing.kitchen@yahoo.ca
Volunteers for the recycling program.
Call for Volunteers The Riverview Boys & Girls Club is looking for volunteers to help with their recycling program.
We are going to expand with a west end depot and we are looking for help sorting the recyclables that get dropped off by residents. It can be any time on any day that is convenient for you. We have a small building that will have all the necessary equipment for sorting, such as the big bags and gloves.
If you have a few hours a week or an evening that you can give a couple of hours to drop by, we would be very appreciative.
You can get more details on how to help the “Enviro-Kids” program by calling either Lynda at 387-7070 or Nigel at 866-1372.
Our Food Southeast NB
Position:
Steering Committee Members (2-3)
Term: 2 years (with renewal)
Hours: 5-10 per month
Our Food Southeast New Brunswick (Our Food SENB) is a regional network, consisting of individuals and organizations who work to increase access to healthy, just, and sustainable food. Our Food SENB works in partnership with the United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick. We support the food movement in Southeast NB by working together to grow connections and make easy, fair, and sustainable food access a reality for all. We believe that food provides common ground for working together and supporting vibrant communities, resilient people, and healthful lands.
Open the PDF document for all the information
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The PPE Video’s follow Public Health protocols and were recorded by Paramedic’s. Please share.
Stay safe!
Integration Through Volunteering
Oct.3rd, 2019 – For many new comer families one spouse is gainfully employed while the other isnt. With time on their hands and feeling a little lost in a new place volunteering is one way to feel more at home in the community. The Volunteer Bureau for Southeast New Brunswick launched a video project that explains to new comers why volunteering can be a win-win. And its been done in several third-languages. The Executive Director of the VBSENB Annette Vautour now says their project has garnered national attention.
Newcomers volunteering
How can your organization make volunteering more accessible for newcomers?
Encouraging Newcomer Immigrants to get involved in their new community
Multi-lingual (5 languages) promotion video
Please refer to the following instructions on viewing and downloading the videos to your website.
- Volunteer Center home page
- Scroll to the VOLUNTEER OPP. SECTION.
- VIDEOS, click on the language of your choice.
- The video will open on a new webpage.
- You can share the video. To download it on your own webpage, put your cursor on the video and open the context menu. (A context menu also called shortcut or pop-up menu is a menu that appears upon a right-click mouse operation.) Click on ‘copy the integration code’. Paste the code where you want on your own webpage.
Thanks to everyone
that supported this fundraiser
LOCAL POTTERY BUSINESS GIVES BACK TO COMMUNITY DRIVING PROGRAM
Woodstoneware a local business well known for their unique collection of pottery has designed a ‘One of a Kind Pottery Mug’ for WA Transpo, Urban Rides. The purchase of ‘Mugs on the Move’ will provide low income individuals transportation to a food bank or medical appointment in the Greater Moncton area.
‘This ‘One of a Kind Pottery Mug’ is made with forest and earth from red clay with sustainable wood and glaze – $ 40.00 each – {50% of sales will be donated}. If you are interested in purchasing ‘Mugs on the Move’ and want to help out someone needing a drive in the community you can visit www.woodstoneware.com for more information.
ENTER TO WIN $1000 IN NEW TIRES
We need your help and in exchange for your help, you will be entered into a draw for $ 1000 in new tires generously donated by:
You do not need to be a volunteer yourself but can be entered to win simply by referring a new volunteer to us who clears the screening process. For each volunteer you refer, you will gain one entry in the draw. Each new volunteer who registers and clears the screening process will also be entered to win. Volunteers can live anywhere in Westmorland and Albert Counties including but not limited to – Salisbury, Petitcodiac, Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe, Hillsborough, Alma, Riverside Albert, Memramcook, Dorchester, Sackville, Port Elgin, Cap Pele, Grand Barachois, Shediac and all points in between. Draw will take place the end of August.
Volunteer drivers use their own vehicle to drive people who do not have transportation or are unable to drive, such as seniors and people with disabilities, to medical appointments, shopping and to other services. In addition to transporting our clients, volunteers are now also delivering food and prescriptions in response to the COVID 19 crisis. Drivers are reimbursed $0.41/km. Volunteering as a driver is a great way to meet and help neighbors in the community.
Safety protocols have been developed by Public Health in response to the pandemic to protect drivers and clients using the service. Drivers are provided with personal protective equipment to use when transporting clients and doing deliveries.
If you or someone you know has a few hours a month or more and want to be part of a team on a mission to help others get where they need to go, please call 962-3073 or email watranspodispatch@gmail.com for more information. Drivers need to be over the age of 21, have a valid driver’s license, have a reliable automobile, carry $2 million liability (we will reimburse the extra charge up to $80 per year), sign an oath of confidentiality, clear a police record check, driver’s abstract and provide two references.
Our valuable existing drivers are not left out of the opportunity to win. In addition to being able to gain entries by referring other drivers, there is a second draw for $1000 in tires open only to those wonderful people who have been actively volunteering.
Kelly Taylor
Executive Manager, Urban/Rural Rides, WA Transpo
Debbi LeBlanc Urban Manager, WA Transpo
Community Peace Centre – The Inside!
Feb.20th, 2020 – The Community Peace Centre has been and is an important part of the social fabric to our area. Many not-for-profit organizations call the Centre home. But who are they and how many? Nows your chance to find out!
Volunteer Canada is very excited to share with you that the new Canada Service Corps has launched!
2018-01-16
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new national service initiative for Canadian youth. This initiative will provide a number of ways for youth to engage in service to their communities, including an online volunteer matching platform, created in collaboration with Volunteer Canada. This platform will enable young Canadians to find and be matched with volunteer opportunities locally and across the country!
Find more information about Youth Service Canada and the new youth volunteer opportunities platform:
Charity that provides affordable rides desperate for volunteers
Social Sharing
Program can’t manage demand as provincial COVID-19 restrictions loosen
Getting to medical appointments was a continual worry for Bruce Moore, whose health issues required him to travel from his home in Sackville to appointments in Moncton fairly often.
But without a car or the money to pay the $140 round trip taxi fare, he was left with few options.
Then, three years ago, he discovered Urban/Rural Rides… Learn more
Westmorland/Albert County
WA Transpo is now receiving driver requests for the following transportation programs; Tele Drive Albert County, Rural Rides Petitcodiac/Salisbury, Tantramar Rural Rides and the Volunteer Driver Program. We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our services to now include the Shediac and Memramcook Area {all of Westmorland and Albert County}.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer driver for any of the above driving programs or would like to schedule a drive you can contact our dispatcher at 962-3073 or by e-mail at
watranspodispatch@gmail.com
Community Partners
Happy Earth Day garden friends!
Today seemed like an appropriate day to make an announcement about our plans for continuing to support our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
First off, our “Urban Farm” is already working to produce fresh food for the Peter McKee Community Food Centre, and we will continue to do so as time goes on.
Second, we will be opening our garden plots to our community gardeners, unless ordered to do otherwise. We will be making sure we keep everyone safe by practicing social distancing, installing a handwashing station, sanitizing our tools after each use, and having limited gardeners in the space at a time. All of our boxes are booked for this season, but of you would like to be added to the list for next year, please let me know.
And last, but certainly not least, we have decided to continue supporting our community gardeners through this difficult time by hosting virtual garden workshops! These will essentially be me live streaming from our garden, showing you how we do things, answering questions, and giving a short talk/demonstration on different gardening topics. Tune in of you’d like to participate!
If you have any questions or comments, please shoot me a direct message here, and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Stay safe, be well, and take care.
Xoxo. Alicia
Awesome volunteer community effort! http://becauselove.mw.church/
A PLACE TO LEARN AND GROW
- Volunteer managers and professionals of New Brunswick (VMPNB)
Listing upcoming training sessions, webinars, conferences, etc.
- Training opportunities
Any upcoming training opportunities thru our centre.
- Valuing your volunteers – Adopt the code
This section has information about non-profits adopting the Canadian code for volunteer involvement thru volunteer Canada.
We have rooms available for meeting or training purposes.
Training Room comfortably accommodates 25 people at table or 45 people in theatre style
$30.00 per hour / $70.00 for a 3 hour period / $130.00 full day
Fill out a request form.
CRANDALL students volunteering
An initiative of Crandall University as part of the Community Practicum (CCP)
Volunteer opportunities
U de M students volunteering
An initiative of FÉÉCUM (Fédération des étudiantes et étudiants du Campus universitaire de Moncton)
Volunteer opportunities
Volunteering is an opportunity to give back to the community of Greater Moncton. Being a Volunteer Greeter is the highlight of my week!
Volunteer Driver assisting one our clients to an appointment. ‘Your commitment to volunteering many years in our community is outstanding’, Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator.