Volunteering in Edmonton

New Survey Shows Canadians Care About Community


The 2007 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating is a comprehesive survey that looks at how Canadians give back to their communities through ways like volunteering, providing financial donations and directly helping individuals.

Highlights from the survey:
- 12.5 million Canadians volunteer, the equivalent of 46 per cent of the population aged 15 and over
-Volunteers contributed the largest average number of hours to religious, sports and recreation, social services, and arts and culture organizations.
-The top benefits cited by volunteers were gaining interpersonal skills, communication and organizational or managerial skills.
- 44 per cent of non-volunteers cited that one barrier to volunteering was that no one had asked them to volunteer.
To read more results from the survey, visit www.givingandvolunteering.ca.

Here are some places you can go to look for a volunteering opportunity.

Volunteer Edmonton

A list of suggestions of places to look for volunteer opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities in Edmonton (Mostly long-term)