We need your help!!!
Do you have a special skill or talent?
We're looking for anyone who has a special skill or talent that would be willing to host a one-hour online seminar teaching people how to do your skill.
Sessions will be private with a limited number of tickets. They will be hosted on either a private Facebook group as a Facebook live or on Zoom.
You provide the content, and we provide the platform as well as the clients!
Please sign up through the above link for volunteers, and then send an email to helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com for more details.
100% of the ticket sales will be going towards providing grocery boxes for low-income families at greatly subsidized prices. See our grocery boxes page for how our regular programs work, which you would be assisting in funding, using your skill or talent.
Volunteer Positions
Volunteer Delivery Drivers
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Some basic details:
- After you complete our intake form, you'll be added to our mailing list
- Every Wednesday at noon we send an email with a Google Sheet, where you can comment to sign up for driving positions to happen on the following Saturday
- Half of our deliveries leave from Leslie and York Mills, the other half leave from Roncesvalles and Queen
- Drivers are to arrive between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., with deliveries to be finished for the most part by 6 p.m.
- If you sign up to be a driver and you would be using your own vehicle and your own gas
- You can select on the sign up sheet that comes out Wednesday's which area you would like to drive for based on the recipients major intersections
- Most deliveries are the size of two wine/beer cases per person, although this will increase to three boxes per person on the first Saturday of each month
- For more information, please see our FAQs page, then you can also email us after at helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Some basic details:
- After you complete our intake form, you'll be added to our mailing list
- Every Wednesday at noon we send an email with a Google Sheet, where you can comment to sign up for both packing positions and driving positions to happen on the following Saturday
- For packing positions, there is one volunteer position available at our distribution centre which is Leslie and York Mills from 3 to 4 p.m.
- The majority of our packing positions are at our main site, near Roncesvalles & Queen
- There are two shifts available: the first shift is 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the second shift is from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- For more information, please see our FAQs page, then you can also email us after at helping.toronto.volunteers@gmail.com
Volunteer From Home
Volunteer On-site (Non-driving)
Volunteer From Home
We have several administrative positions available that change from week-to-week based on volunteer sign-up, and the organization's needs.
Some of the positions that we hire for from time to time, 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 are recipients 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 5 to 15 hours per week, all from home, most of which our able to be fulfilled on a very flexible schedule.