Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Volunteer Positions
All Volunteering
- After you complete our intake form, you'll be added to our mailing list
- Every time there's a new opportunity, we send an email with a Google Sheet, where you can COMMENT to sign up for positions that you are interested in attending.
- For most events you will receive an email the day before with the details of your volunteering shift. Please be sure to read the entire email as it may have actions that need to be taken prior to your shift.
- Please only register to sign up for events that you are sure you can attend.
- Two cancellations or no shows within 72 hours of an event, will mean you can no longer volunteer with us. Signing up for multiple events just to cancel days later, will mean you can no longer volunteer with us. Please be respectful of our staff/volunteer's time!
Corporate or Group Volunteer Opportunity
By far, the best way to get your employees engaged in a corporate team building event is by giving back to the local community. Toronto Cares Initiative has several opportunities available for corporations to create kits or put on events that will directly impact low-income marginalized families within Toronto. From holiday events to food security initiatives to supporting those with mental health challenges and the unhoused, we provide a plethora of options, each with the opportunity for your employees to engage with each other while giving back.
Volunteer Delivery Drivers
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Some basic details:
- Some of our deliveries leave from Woodbine and Danforth, the majority leave from Eglinton and Dufferin
- Drivers are to arrive between 9am and 4 pm, with most deliveries lasting 1-2 hours
- If you sign up to be a driver, you would be using your own vehicle and your own gas
- We can now provide tax receipts for gas
- You can select on the sign-up sheet which area you would like to drive for based on the client's major intersections
- Deliveries vary in size depending on what we are picking up or dropping off
- Occasionally we have drop-offs and pick-ups that happen on weekdays either during the week or in the evening
- For more information, please see our FAQs page, then you can also email us after at helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Some basic details:
We have recently opened a Produce Market & Food Bank at Fairbank Memorial Community Center on Fridays. There are three shifts available every Friday:
• 9:30am-12:30pm - sorting & set-up
• 12:30pm-4:30pm - sorting & set-up
• 4:00pm-8:00pm - assist clients with obtaining their food items
Students Welcome!
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Some basic details:
- For packing positions, there are a few volunteer position available at our distribution centre which is Danforth and Woodbine from 11am to 6pm
- The majority of our packing positions are at our main site, near Eglinton and Dufferin
- There are two shifts available: the first shift is 9:30am to 1:00pm, and the second shift is from 12:30pm to 4:00pm
- For more information, please see our FAQs page, then you can also email us after at helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com
Volunteer From Home
Food Bank & Produce Market Volunteers
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Some basic details:
Once a month, we ask volunteers to prepare food for our Community Meal for the Homeless, which can be done from home and with the entire family
- We provide tax receipts for any of the food purchased
- Students can also register to prepare food from home getting one volunteer hour per item they register for
- Registrations are emailed after you have signed up as a volunteer at the top of this page
More opportunities:
We also have several administrative positions available that change from time-to-time based on volunteer sign-up, and the organization's needs.
Some of the positions that we hire for, which are on an entirely volunteer, unpaid basis are:
- Helping our recipients without internet access complete their intake form over the phone
- Researching grants that our organization would be able to apply for
- Creating fundraising campaigns
- Researching places where we can advertise our services, mostly within communities without internet access
- Researching and contacting corporations for physical donations
- Tech support for any of the apps and websites that we use
- Social media content creation and posting
- Researching resources that our clients can apply for within the community they live in
- Management positions running one of our different departments
- For more information, please see our FAQs page, then you can also email us after at helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com
These positions range from 2 to 10 hours per week, all from home, most of which can be fulfilled on a very flexible schedule.
Specific Or Special Skills & Talents
Specific Or Special Skills & Talents
Specific Or Special Skills & Talents
Some basic details:
Do you have a SKILL or TALENT that you think might help our organization? Data entry, social media, finance, singing, photography, project management, grant writing, etc?
Whether you're a recipient who wants to give back or a community volunteer, we'd love to hear about your skills/talents and ways that you can help us that are outside of the box! You can help both in person and/or working from home, whatever fits your needs best.
⭐ Toronto Cares Initiative is currently looking for a few Specific Skill Types:
• Security Guards
• Lawyer with charity experience
• Certified Accountant to audit our books
(Please call our Executive Director at 647-451-3663 after completing the above online application.)
Register to be a volunteer today at the link on the top of the page!!!